Sr. Software Developer - Observability Tracing (Hybrid)
CrowdStrike · Posted Sep 18
Cloud-native endpoint security, threat intelligence, and AI-driven cybersecurity protection services
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About the role
CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations, operating large-scale distributed systems that process almost 3 trillion events per day. The Observability team builds infrastructure services that support CrowdStrike engineering teams' pursuit of a full DevOps model, developing application performance monitoring and distributed tracing capabilities. This role is for a hands-on senior engineer to architect, test and build a large-scale observability and tracing platform across a microservices architecture.
What you will do
- Ensure a reliable and tested platform that provides comprehensive application performance monitoring and distributed tracing
- Architect, test and build a large scale observability platform leveraging Sentry and distributed tracing solutions
- Design and implement end-to-end tracing across microservices architecture
- Build, test and deliver kubernetes operators
- You will participate in 24x7 on-call rotations (monthly or bi-monthly)
- Participate in regular retros, capacity and planning meetings with your team, allowing team collaboration and discussions in a high fidelity manner
- Be part of "lunch and learn" demos: for new POCs or design sessions to work out new architectures
- Flexible working - with transparent communication, we encourage flexible working and a healthy work life balance
- Responsible for reviewing new design proposals from your peers
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience in Observability, with focus on error tracking and distributed tracing (Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger or similar solutions)
- Experience in software development, preferably with building Kubernetes operators using (Python, Bash or Go)
- Experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments
- Experience operating within the cloud, AWS & GCP preferred
- Experience with TDD, CI/CD, Chaos Engineering or similar resilience and reliability practices for infrastructure development
- 8+ years industry experience
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Preferred qualifications
- Proven ability to work effectively with both local and remote teams.
- Rock solid communication skills, verbal and written.
- A combination of confidence and independence, with the prudence to know when to ask for help from the rest of the team.
- Contributions and involvement in OSS projects
- Experience with being on-call
- Knowledge of SRE, Devops and Gitops practices
Benefits and support
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
- Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
- Paid parental and adoption leaves
- Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
- Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
- Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader that provides cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. Powered by the cloud-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform and artificial intelligence, the company helps secure critical areas of enterprise risk to stop breaches.
- Industry
- Cybersecurity
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $430M raised
- 2020-10-13Post IPO DebtUndisclosed
Leadership
Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
President
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