Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - Cloud (Hybrid

About The Role

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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. Crowd Strikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.

We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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.

This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.

• 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)
• OAuth
• Python
• AWS
• Kafka
• GIT
• Cassandra
• Elastic Search
• Redis
• Postgres
• ZMQ
• AWS Cloud
• GraphQL

• Necessary criteria to obtain Gov Cloud Access: (most typically, either Citizenship or PR/GC status)
• 8+ years of backend object-oriented development experience in production, with any of:
  Golang, Java, Scala, Node.js, Python or C# (.NET Core).
• Experience with AuthN and AuthZ
• Experience with FGA (Fine-Grained Auth rules)
• Recent experience building high scale event driven microservices architecture (at least 5M events/day +)
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• 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 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.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

• Experience with Fine Grained Access Control mechanisms like OpenFGA or Zanzibar
• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.
• Contributions to the open source community (Git Hub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
• Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch...…