# Principal Data Engineer, LLM/AI Platforms (Remote)

Hiring organization: [CrowdStrike](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crowdstrike)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/c43fc382-817d-445d-977c-9321bb4d657d

Listed on CrowdStrike's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Principal
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 195000 – 290000 USD per year

## Summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a senior technical leader to design and optimize data infrastructure that supports large-language models and AI agents at massive scale, processing exabytes of security data. This role suits experienced platform engineers who have built distributed systems for ML/AI in mission-critical environments and want to mentor a team while shipping production-grade code.

_Our summary, not CrowdStrike's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Airflow, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Docker, Google BigQuery, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLflow, Python, Snowflake, SPARK

## Required

- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related STEM field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 10+ years of Data Engineering or Platform Engineering experience
- At least 3 years architecting and building AI/ML platforms at massive scale
- Hands-on LLM engineering experience including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and deployment
- Demonstrated experience designing large-scale distributed systems
- Prior Principal or Staff level engineering role with technical leadership and mentorship

## Nice to have

- Direct experience building, deploying, and managing LLMs in production
- Prior experience in cybersecurity, intelligence, or high-compliance industries
- Open-source contributions related to data or AI/ML

Apply on CrowdStrike's site: https://crowdstrike.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/crowdstrikecareers/job/USA---Remote/Principal-Data-Engineer--LLM-AI-Platforms--Remote-_R28829