Software Engineer, Cloud​/Backend - Policy; Hybrid

Location

This is a hybrid role based out of either our offices in Sunnyvale, CA or Redmond, WA with an expectation of being in the office twice a week.

• Build and evolve cloud-based systems to flawlessly manage and distribute configuration information to a fleet of millions of endpoints, collaborating with other cloud, front-end, and endpoint developers.
• Brainstorm, design, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
• Use AI extensively to leverage your talents and accelerate our processes.
• Build elegant and performant solutions for complex technical problems in Go.
• Read and critique code in the multiple programming languages in use in our environment (including Go, Python, Unix shell, Typescript, C++, among others), and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members.
• Focus on continual learning, raising the bar for both yourself and your teammates.
• Leverage our understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean.
• Be an energetic 'self-starter' with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and when leading a team.
• Deliver and accept feedback with grace and courtesy.
• Collaborate on determining root causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future.
• Some travel will be required for in-person meetings.

• Must be eligible for CJIS clearance (requires U.S. citizenship or Green Card/permanent resident status).
• A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.).
• 3+ years of experience building and scaling back-end systems in production.
• Team player skills - we embrace collaboration.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Experience with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, and/or similar technologies. You don't need all of these, but you need some.
• No prior security industry experience required.
• Will mentor and train in security topics as needed.
• Strong interest in Crowd Strike's mission and willingness to engage with the needs of our product teams and customers.