Sr. Software Engineer, LogScale Search (Hybrid)

About the role

Our mission is to make all of our customers' security-relevant data continuously available for automated detection and response, threat hunting, and other Falcon use cases. To enable this, the systems behind NG-SIEM are growing to accommodate >100 PB of event and action data ingested every day, up to 10 years of retention, and dozens of millions of queries per hour across large sections of the data stored.

Responsibilities

• Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues supporting each other through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance
• Lead by example on customer and product focus, as well as on hands-on operational excellence by monitoring and following up on features released to customers and troubleshooting critical customer issues
• Deliver cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects by owning or participating in scoping, designing and developing of new features to open-ended problems
• Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extending our product to keep LogScale scale with increasing ingest and query load while ensuring high availability
• Collaborate with your peers across teams on defining and delivering new solutions, design documents, technical talks and improving our internal documentation

Requirements

• A passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity of how our running systems are doing
• Experience in software development in general and the ability to juggle making pragmatic tradeoffs between short-time delivery needs vs long-term product goals
• Experience in contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services
• Fluency in both functional and object oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go
• A can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities
• Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when operating services that span many components across several geographical regions
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical concepts crisply to individual contributors and management
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes

Qualifications

• Experience programming in Scala
• Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with Kafka
• Hands on experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization - over 1 trillion requests per day or more than 10 PB of data per day
• Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products

Skills

• Passion for distributed systems and curiosity of system operation
• Pragmatic tradeoffs between short-time delivery needs vs long-term product goals
• Broad technical leadership in products or services
• Both functional and object oriented programming
• Can-do attitude and collaborative team player
• Operational excellence in managing services across multiple components and geographies
• Clear communication and technical concept articulation
• Utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes

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