Sr Software Engineer, Cloud – Platform Foundations; Hybrid

As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike 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. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily.

Our customers span all industries, and they count on Crowd Strike 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 Crowd Striker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers 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.

You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for managing the customer lifecycle and their product experience. Whenever a new customer onboards on the Falcon platform, our team manages the automation of orchestrations to give our customers a seamless experience, and for this we build and extend services that are capable of making millions of decisions per second!

As part of this team, you will play a critical role in enhancing the existing flow and building the next generation cloud‑based access and resource management systems.

Getting customers operational could mean initializing them in our customer stores, setting up required policies, setting up management groups for their machines, enabling configuration for them in several different dependent services, as well as handling both authN and authZ across internal (e.g. Service‑to‑service authorization, etc.) and external (e.g. user login, etc) integrations. The group is a critical part of our flagship Falcon Platform product, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups.

Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale. You will help build a platform that scales to millions of events per second. If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at high scale, you’ve come to the right place.

This is a hybrid position operating 2‑3 days a week out of the Sunnyvale, CA office, with the remaining balance of days working remotely from home.

• 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.
• 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.

• Go (Golang)
• Python
• AWS
• Kafka
• GIT
• Cassandra
• Elastic Search
• Redis
• Postgres
• ZMQ
• Hadoop
• AWS Cloud

• 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 bits 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…