CrowdStrike
Sr. Backend Engineer II, AutoScaling & Balancing, NG-SIEM (Hybrid)
$160K–$250K
USA - Austin, TX +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- USA - Austin, TX
USA - New York, NY
USA - Sunnyvale, CA
USA - Redmond, WA - Experience
- 12+ years; 4+ years in a force-multiplying engineering position; 3+ years of current hands-on distributed-systems ownership.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or US Permanent Resident.
About the job
Build and operate NG-SIEM systems for intelligent customer placement, auto balancing, and autoscaling across a large multi-tenant data platform.
What you'll do
- Design and operate customer placement, balancing, and autoscaling systems using per-tenant usage data.
- Investigate LogScale ingestion, storage, caching, and query behavior to improve scaling decisions and reliability.
- Deliver features, lead solutions to ambiguous problems, and align technical strategy across the platform.
What they ask for
- 12+ years designing, implementing, and maintaining software products or systems across the development lifecycle and multiple software stacks.
- 4+ years as an engineer in a force-multiplying position (delivery through others).
- 3+ years of current hands-on ownership of a distributed system handling tens of billions of requests per day or more than 1 PB of data per day.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or US Permanent Resident.
Nice to have
- Hands-on development experience in Golang and Scala.
- Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; Kafka expertise; Log Management or cybersecurity exposure; or machine learning and data science experience.
Pay
$160,000 - $250,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Golang, Scala, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kafka, LogScale
AI focus
Use AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.
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