Software Detection Engineer - Cloud, Identity Protection (hybrid, Isr)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Tel Aviv, Israel

Software Detection Engineer focused on building real-time, AI-powered identity threat detection systems for CrowdStrike's cybersecurity platform. The role involves designing and implementing detection rules, ML models, and integrating LLM-based reasoning into production flows, processing billions of authentication events daily.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement real-time detection rules and pipelines over high-throughput Kafka event streams, maintaining sub-second detection latency at massive scale.
  2. Build the pluggable detection engine and rule framework that turns raw authentication telemetry into indicators, and indicators into enriched, customer-facing alerts.
  3. Develop machine-learning and behavioral-anomaly models, and integrate LLM-based detection reasoning (e.g. AI-driven severity scoring) into production detection flows.
  4. Translate security research into production-grade detections, partnering with security researchers who guide you on the threat landscape.
  5. Own detections in production: observability, latency SLOs, safe per-customer rollouts (feature-flag-gated), and incident response for the detection pipeline.

Skills

Required

  • Programming mastery in Python
  • deep expertise in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience with event-streaming / message-queue architectures (Kafka or similar)
  • distributed data processing
  • Experience with relational and document stores (PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
  • caching (Redis)
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related engineering discipline

Nice to have

  • Go experience
  • security/detection background
  • ML for anomaly detection
  • applied LLM/GenAI experience

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native platform
  • AI-driven severity scoring
  • AI-first mindset
  • AI technologies to enhance decision-making

Other signals

  • AI-native platform
  • AI-driven severity scoring
  • AI-first mindset