Software Engineer (Remote)

About the Role:

The collection, processing, and exploration of information at a large scale is at the core of the Intelligence mission at CrowdStrike. The Intelligence Automation team is responsible for prototyping, building and operating the systems that make up our Intelligence pipeline, and we'd like you to join us!

You will use languages such as Go, Python, and JavaScript to build flexible data integration and processing systems in a fast-paced Intelligence environment. In this environment, requirements sometimes shift rapidly, and projects can live anything from weeks to years depending on changes in the surrounding ecosystem. You will be responsible for all aspects of the software you design, from documentation to deployment to production, and will interact regularly with your internal customers to gather requirements, solicit feedback and validate your results. We are agnostic when it comes to technology stacks, and you will be free to pick the technologies that best fit the requirements at any given time, based on your previous exposure to a wide variety of programming languages and databases.

As a remote employee on a team distributed across various time zones, you will not have direct access to all of your co-workers for the entire workday, so the ability to work unsupervised, communicate asynchronously, and take the initiative in maintaining lines of communication is important. In addition, we are looking for someone who would like to be part of a team who are passionate about their work and go the extra mile to exceed expectations. We love enthusiastic individuals who bring a positive attitude to their work and really care about what they produce for our internal customers.

What You'll Do:

• Responsible for extracting and ingesting data from websites using web crawling tools, documented APIs and RSS feeds

• Own the creation process of tools, services, and workflows to improve data ingestion

• Own the process to identify and rectify any issues with breaks as well as scale scrapes as needed

• Integrate into the existing Intelligence team and take requirements from Intelligence Analysts and Technical Analysts as internal customers

• Develop requirements based on anything from vague mission statements to very detailed technical specifications

• Implement system software components, making choices about implementation details, as well as the right balance between rapid development, scalability, and performance

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent academic/work experience

• Intimate familiarity with Linux and running services on Linux

• Familiarity with docker and container orchestration systems

• Familiarity with HTTP, HTML, JavaScript and web design (CSS, DOM)

• Demonstrable knowledge of Python and/or golang programming languages

• Familiarity with techniques and tools for crawling, extracting and processing data (e.g. Scrapy, pandas, mapreduce, SQL, BeautifulSoup) as well as HTTP APIs or RSS feeds

• Finding innovative ways to get data from various sources

• Ability to communicate technical detail in a simple, top-down manner

• Ability to independently make sound, justifiable decisions and take action

• Ability to plan, organize and prioritize work independently and meet deadlines

• Ability to work on a geographically distributed and diverse team

Bonus Points:

• Knowledge or interest for AI powered tools to automate extraction of data from websites

• Knowledge of Go programming language

• Familiarity with social media APIs

• Familiarity with the AWS and/or GCP cloud ecosystem (e.g. EC2, S3, VPC, ECS, AWS Glue)

• Experience with data modeling, standardization, and normalization across a variety of structured/unstructured data formats

• Experience offering scalable and well-documented HTTP APIs for customers

• Experience from Information Security Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions or comparable offensive information security experience

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