Principal Data Engineer LLM/AI Platforms (Remote)

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. 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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

CrowdStrike is looking for a Principal Data Engineer with deep expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI platforms to join our growing Data Science Platform Engineering Team. You will be a key leader responsible for designing building and deploying cutting-edge data infrastructure that powers our next generation of AI-driven security products. This role requires significant hands-on experience in LLM integration agentic workflows and agent harnessing to deliver high-impact scalable solutions. You will champion engineering excellence focusing on shipping fast writing elegant high-quality code and actively mentoring and strengthening the team's technical knowledge and capabilities.

The scale of our systems and data are approaching Exabytes in size. Experience with extremely large-scale systems including DevSecOps patterns practices and standards are important for this work.
 

• Architect implement and optimize data platforms and pipelines specifically designed to support LLMs 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.

• Design and implement highly scalable fault-tolerant and cost-effective data solutions emphasizing rapid iteration and high-quality deployment.

• Write elegant production-ready code with a focus on performance maintainability and testing rigor ensuring the ability to ship fast without compromising quality.

• Provide technical leadership and deep expertise in data modeling normalization and semantic cataloging for AI/ML workloads.

• Establish best practices for MLOps/DataOps surrounding LLMs including monitoring observability and zero-touch recovery mechanisms for AI services.

• 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.
   

• MLOps Tools (MLflow Sagemaker Vertex AI)

• Experience with common agentic workflow frameworks (e.g. LangChain LlamaIndex).

• Expert-level proficiency in a high-level coding language (Python or JVM technologies).

• Deep experience with distributed data processing frameworks (e.g. Spark Dask Flink).

• Strong expertise with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or OCI) and related data services.

• Containerization and orchestration mastery (Docker Kubernetes).

• Message queuing and streaming technologies (Kafka Pulsar).

• Data Warehousing (Snowflake BigQuery) and Data Orchestration (Airflow Kubeflow).
   

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science Data Engineering or a related STEM field or equivalent practical experience.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in Data Engineering/Platform Engineering with at least 3 years focused on architecting and building platforms for AI/ML or Data Science at massive scale.

• Demonstrable hands-on experience in LLM engineering (fine-tuning prompt engineering deployment) RAG and developing agentic workflows.

• 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.

• A thorough understanding of engineering practices including effective peer code reviews resilient architecture design and comprehensive testing paradigms.

• Prior experience in a Principal or Staff level engineering role demonstrating technical leadership and mentorship capabilities.

• Direct experience building deploying and managing LLMs in a production environment.

• Prior experience in the cybersecurity intelligence or high-compliance industries.

• Contributions to open-source projects related to data or AI/ML.

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CrowdStrike has redefined security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform that protects and enables the people processes and technologies that drive modern enterprise. Tested and proven the world's largest organizations trust CrowdStrike to stop breaches with unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. The CrowdStrike culture has been built upon our Core Values since the day we began. We are Fanatical About the Customer Relentlessly Focused on Innovation and believe that our Limitless Passion drives Unlimited Potential for every CrowdStriker. As a purpose-built remote-first company we believe cultivating a connected culture for every employee no matter where they are in the world is a key ingredient in building a high-performing diverse team. We don’t have a mission statement. We’re on a mission—to stop breaches. Ready to join a mission that matters?

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