[Hiring] Senior Engineer - Falcon NG-SIEM, Serverless Cell Platform @CrowdStrike

Role Description

Our mission is to make all of our customers' security-relevant data continuously available for automated detection and response, threat hunting, and other Falcon platform use cases. To enable this, the systems behind NG-SIEM (next-generation security information and event management) are growing to accommodate:

• More than 100 PB of event and action data ingested every day
• Up to 10 years of retention
• Dozens of millions of queries per hour across large sections of the data stored
• For tens of thousands of customers

As a Senior Engineer on the NG-SIEM Serverless Cell Platform team, you will be responsible for ensuring the health, performance, and reliability of cell infrastructure — operating the security industry's largest SIEM platform while building the automation and self-healing systems that enable it to scale seamlessly.

The NG-SIEM platform is built on a cell-based architecture where each cell is a self-contained LogScale cluster serving customer data. As we scale toward hundreds of petabytes per day, you will own the operational management of these cells through:

• Monitoring
• Incident response
• Capacity planning
• Continuous improvement

You will also develop automation systems that reduce toil and enable the fleet to self-heal. You will participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations (8x7), perform version upgrades and scaling operations, optimize resource utilization, and write Go microservices that transform manual operational procedures into robust, automated workflows. You will join a distributed team of high-ownership technical leaders who share a strong passion for our mission: to stop breaches.

This role is based in Australia and is fully remote. Many team members are located in Sydney.

Qualifications

• A passion for reliability engineering and operational excellence, with strong understanding of how large-scale distributed systems behave under pressure
• 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure operations, with significant time operating and improving distributed systems at scale
• Experience with capacity planning, resource optimization, and scaling operations for large-scale infrastructure
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, Java, or similar) for writing automation scripts and microservices
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, OCI, or GCP) including compute, storage, networking, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
• A can-do attitude — you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for writing runbooks, incident reports, and collaborating with teams across time zones
• Ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs between operational stability and feature delivery needs
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building monitoring systems, defining SLIs/SLOs, creating dashboards, and implementing alerting
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across distributed system components
• Experience operating database infrastructure, log management platforms, search systems, or SIEM platforms at scale
• Track record of building automation that enables self-healing infrastructure and reduces operational toil
• Experience with streaming platforms (Kafka or similar) and understanding of distributed data pipelines, backpressure, and partition management
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, or similar)
• Background in cybersecurity, security operations, or familiarity with security data workflows

Benefits

• 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