Engineer III, Cloud - Platform (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 115,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Compensation & equity

Wellness programs

Vacation & holidays

Parental leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Office culture

Great Place to Work

Job summary

CrowdStrike is hiring for a senior backend engineer to join our cloud backend team in the Platform product group. You will work on authentication and authorization services handling internal and external authN/Z at massive scale.

This hybrid role requires 2-3 days on-site in Toronto, with collaboration across product groups and a focus on scalable, high-performance systems. You will mentor others and contribute to open-source and AI-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures/distributed systems
• 6+ years of backend development experience
• Ability to scale backend systems with sharding and horizontal scaling
• Desire to ship production-ready code
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
• Strong multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing knowledge
• Team-oriented with strong peer code-review practices

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering efforts from prototypes to large-scale apps
• Build cloud-based systems to detect threats at global scale
• Collaborate with multiple teams to define and implement solutions
• Champion new technologies and raise the team's technical IQ
• Mentor other developers in web, backend and data storage tech
• Continuously re-evaluate architecture for performance and reliability

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Code reviews

CI/CD

Team collaboration

Leadership

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Go (Golang)

OAuth

AWS

Kafka

GIT

ElasticSearch

Redis

Postgres

gRPC

Job description

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike 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 CrowdStrike 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. CrowdStrikers 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 CrowdStrikers 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.

About the Role:

You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for authentication and authorization. The Auth team is responsible for both internal (e.g. Service-to-service authorization, etc.) and external (e.g. user login, etc) authN and authZ. The team is a critical part of cloud, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups. The team builds and extends services that can make 1+ trillion decisions per day!

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 and Terabytes of data per day. 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 role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations (TORONTO).

What You’ll Do:

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike 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

What You’ll Use:

• Go (Golang)

• OAuth

• AWS

• Kafka

• GIT

• ElasticSearch

• Redis

• Postgres

• AWS Cloud

• gRPC

What You’ll Need:

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)

• 6+ years of backend development experience

• 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 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.

Bonus Points:

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects

• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, GCP, SpiceDB/OpenFGA/Zanzibar, Kafka, Elasticsearch

• Familiarity with SAML, OAuth, SSO, OIDC, JWT

• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• 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

CrowdStrike 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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CrowdStrike Canada ULC is committed to equal pay for equal work in its compensation practices. The base salary range for this position in Canada is $115,000 - $165,000 CAD per year + variable/incentive compensation + equity + benefits. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. This is Canadian-based employment, and it is expected that all employees maintain legal entitlement to work in Canada. Applicants selected to move forward in the hiring process are subject to background checks, including but not limited to criminal record, credit, and/or reference checks.