Platform Security Engineer (Remote, East/Central)

Introduction

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform.

About the Role

Help us protect CrowdStrike and its customers from the most advanced threats! CrowdStrike's Product Security team breaks the mold of traditional internal security and focuses on active threats to CrowdStrike's products. As a Security Engineer you will perform:

• complex investigations to determine root cause and remediation
• technical security assessments of systems
• monitor for emerging threats
• create tooling for known gaps
• deploy large-scale security/monitoring systems

Responsibilities

• Investigate small to large scale security and engineering issues to determine impact and risks to platform data
• Conduct response and recovery efforts across complex systems and large data sets
• Examine systems and applications to understand current security posture
• Advocate for best-security practices to engineering organization
• Identify, design, and partner with teams to implement security and data improvement projects

Requirements

• Strong security acumen and experience solving complex engineering issues
• Applicable experience in a security engineering, role implementing and supporting security systems for enterprise and production environments
• Experience in incident response, preferably in a role focusing on SaaS platforms and data
• Strong analytical, data focused mindset to solve complex multi-system engineering projects
• Experience working with Linux and/or other Unix-like variants
• Scripting capabilities: shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, or some other automation system
• Protocol knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, applied Cryptography, others
• Technical security certifications or academic background a plus
• Familiar