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Principal Software Engineer, Real Time Data Enrichment Platform (Hybrid)

full time · Principal

$195,000 – $290,000

Listed on CrowdStrike’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

A Principal Engineer role designing and building a self-service data enrichment platform for CrowdStrike's security data lake, which processes trillions of events daily. This position suits highly experienced distributed systems engineers who have optimized large-scale data platforms and want to shape next-generation analytics infrastructure for cybersecurity.

Our summary, not CrowdStrike’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

17+ years experience with B.S. in related field, OR 15+ years with M.S., OR 12+ years with Ph.D.
Experience building and supporting very high scale data platform processing minimum hundreds of TB/day
Significant experience performance-tuning or developing internals within Spark, Flink, Iceberg, Pinot or equivalent streaming/OLAP system
Production experience building Spark- or Flink-based self-service data platforms or equivalent
Strong hands-on experience with at least one Apache Hadoop ecosystem technology (Spark, Kafka, Hive, Iceberg, Delta Lake, Presto, Trino, Pinot, Druid)
3+ years coding in Java, Scala, Kotlin or other JVM language
Production experience with relational and NoSQL databases
Expertise with multiple big data frameworks at multi-petabyte scale
Expertise with distributed systems design and software development lifecycle
Test driven development discipline
Linux administration proficiency
Experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making and drive outcomes
Ability to work effectively with remote teams

Nice to have

Familiarity with Go
Familiarity with Kubernetes or Mesos
Production experience with Flink as runtime for self-service platform