Sr. Cloud Engineer, Falcon Cloud Security; Hybrid

Position: Sr. Cloud Engineer, Falcon Cloud Security (Hybrid)
Location: New York

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* About the Role:

** Crowd Strike is seeking a Senior Engineer for Cloud Security Product Group. We’re extending Crowd Strike’s mission of “stopping breaches” into the public cloud and cloud-native workloads. Crowd Strike’s product offering will give customers the ability to monitor and track their cloud-native workloads as well as hardening and protecting them against attacks prior to deployment. This offering will help with defending against potential adversary activities involving cloud-native resources.

When coupled with Falcon, Crowd Strike’s endpoint security offering, our CSPG offering will provide a more comprehensive perspective on how the adversary is targeting key customer infrastructure. Our ultimate goal is to provide a single platform for securing the entire lifecycle of cloud workloads and cloud security posture.

This role is hybrid, on-site at one of the posted locations. Candidate should be comfortable visiting the office twice a week once the development center is established.
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* What You’ll Do:

*** Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across Crowd Strike products
* Leverage and build cloud-based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale
* Brainstorm, define and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
* Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team
* Work in a startup-like environment with a small fast-moving team
* Be mentored and mentor other developers on web, backend, and data storage technologies and our system
* Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability
* Be given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment
** The technology stack you’ll use will include:
*** Go (Golang)
* AWS/GCP/Azure/Kubernetes
* Kafka* GIT
* Cassandra* Elastic Search
* Docker* Redis
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* What You’ll Need:

*** Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
* Understanding scalability and distributed systems i.e. sharding, partitioning, concurrency, etc
* Being a team player
* A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.
* The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
* The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
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* Bonus Points:

*** Contributions to the open-source community (Git Hub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
* Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch...
* Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields#LI-JC1#LI-OC1

This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.
** Benefits of Working at Crowd Strike:
*** Market leader in compensation and equity awards
* Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
* Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
* Paid parental and adoption leaves
* Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
* Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
* Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
* Great Place to Work Certified across the globe

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