CrowdStrike, Inc.
Principal Staff Engineer, AI Platform Research, Data Science (Remote, CAN)
Canada - Remote ON · Principal
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About the role
- CrowdStrike is looking for a hands-on Staff Data Engineer with deep expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), Agents and AI platforms to join our growing Data Science Platform Engineering Team.
- Given the rapid evolution of AI tooling and development standards, we seek a technical leader to stay at the forefront of research, optimizing these systems while driving the platform advancements that accelerate our research teams.
- You will champion by hands on executing engineering excellence, focusing on shipping fast, writing elegant, high-quality code, and actively mentoring and strengthening the team's technical knowledge and capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Write code everyday. Architect, implement, and optimize data platforms and pipelines specifically designed to support LLMs, Neural Networks, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and sophisticated AI agentic systems at Exabyte scale.
- Drive the adoption and deployment of agentic workflows and agent harnessing techniques to create autonomous, data-driven security features.
- Lead by example in hands coding highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective data solutions, emphasizing rapid iteration and high-quality deployment.
- Actively mentor engineers, conducting technical workshops, leading design reviews, and strengthening the team's knowledge in cutting-edge AI platform technologies.
- Collaborate across the organization with Data Scientists, Product Managers, and other engineering teams to transform research prototypes into robust, production-grade services.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of critical data services: development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Requirements
- Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related STEM field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems (sharding, partitioning, concurrency).
- Exceptional ability to write clean, elegant, performant, and well-tested code, coupled with a proactive mindset for delivering results quickly.
- Ability to leverage AI aided secure code development
- Prior experience in a Staff level engineering role, demonstrating technical leadership and mentorship capabilities.
- Prior experience in the cybersecurity, intelligence, or high-compliance industries.
Skills
- Languages: Expert-level proficiency in at least one - Python, Go, Rust, or JVM technologies.
- AI/ML: MLOps tools (MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI); agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex).
- Distributed Processing: Spark, Dask, or Flink.
- Cloud: AWS, GCP, or OCI and related data services.
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes.
- Streaming: Kafka, Pulsar.
- Data Warehousing & Orchestration: Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow, Kubeflow.
Compensation
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Benefits
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
- Paid parental and adoption leaves
Company info
- 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.
- Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward.
- We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other.
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