Principal Systems Ontologist

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. About the Role: The Vision: The security industry is drowning in “observed symptoms” while starving for at-testable truth. At CrowdStrike, we are building a high integrity infrastructure fabric – a platform that doesn’t just scan for risks, but proves them through a deterministic digital twin of the enterprise. As the Principal Systems Ontologist, you will be the lead designer of a system that treats global infrastructure as a formal graph, where every node and edge is traced back to a versioned source of truth. This role is a part of the Product CTO organization that includes a team of Technical Strategy leaders that bring outstanding ideas, the ability to execute cross-functionally, and teamwork to a strategic, high future impact organization. The Challenge You’ll Solve: How do you build a system that reconciles on-premise data centers with the abstract topology of multi-cloud environments? How do you design an inference engine that rejects non-deterministic reasoning in favor of high performance, deterministic logic? You will architect the “Chain of Custody” for infrastructure data, ensuring that every insight ...