Engineer III - Cloud; Remote

About the Role

In Crowd Strike’s Asset Platform team we work on large‑scale distributed systems, processing over 3 trillion events a day – and this traffic is growing daily. This position is for a role in one of Crowd Strike’s Core Asset Platform teams. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform.

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large‑scale applications across Crowd Strike products.
• Leverage and build cloud‑based systems in a micro‑service driven environment.
• 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.
• 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 an energetic ‘self‑starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Use and give back to the open‑source community.
• We embrace a remote‑first culture and this role is fully remote.

• Go (Golang)
• Open Search
• Redis
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• GIT
• AWS

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
• The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your work run in production.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Deep understanding of multi‑threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• Team player skills – we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible.
• 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.

• Authored and led successful open‑source libraries and projects.
• Contributions to the open‑source community (Git Hub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Open Search.
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

• Remote‑friendly and flexible work culture
• 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

Crowd Strike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

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Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:10-22-2025