Sr. Backend Engineer (Remote, CAN)

CrowdStrike Canada ULC; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in cybersecurity is seeking a senior backend software engineer to join their innovative data platform team. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of building scalable, resilient systems that support a wide range of products. Your expertise in backend languages and cloud engineering principles will be crucial as you lead engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications. This dynamic position offers the opportunity to work in a remote-friendly culture that values flexibility and innovation, while making a significant impact on the future of cybersecurity. Join a team that is committed to excellence and continuous improvement, where your contributions will help shape the future of technology.

Benefits

Remote-friendly work culture

Market leader in compensation

Comprehensive wellness programs

Competitive vacation and holidays

Paid parental and adoption leaves

Professional development opportunities

Employee Resource Groups

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certified

Qualifications

• Expertise in backend languages like Go, Java, or Python is essential.
• Understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering efforts for scalable applications.
• Design and enhance resilient services for CrowdStrike products.
• Troubleshoot critical production issues during on-call rotations.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Java

Python

Distributed Systems

Team Collaboration

Troubleshooting

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS Cloud

Cassandra

Kafka

OpenSearch

Postgres

Redis

Git

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. We have 3.44 PB of RAM deployed across our fleet of C* servers - 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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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:

We are CrowdStrike's data platform team. We build large scalable tier-1 distributed systems and highly available APIs. The shareable and reusable platform services support the needs of all CrowdStrike products such as Cloud Security, Next-Gen SIEM, Identity Protection, Endpoint Security and Charlotte AI.

We’re looking for backend software engineers to build new platform backend capabilities to enable product launches and to handle massive growth in traffic as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products.

This role is for an experienced senior backend microservices developer adept with cloud engineering principles. Your passion and meticulous attention to performance, reliability and scalability will be key ingredients to your success here at CrowdStrike.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
• Design, develop, document, test, deploy, operate and enhance large-scale, resilient and fault-tolerant services.
• Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects.
• Troubleshoot critical production issues during on-call rotations and implement solutions.
• Triage system issues and debug by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations.
• 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.

What You’ll Use:

• Go (Golang)
• Java8
• Python
• git
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• OpenSearch
• Postgres
• Redis
• AWS Cloud

What You’ll Need:

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• Expert knowledge of any of the following backend languages: Go, Scala, Java, Node.js or Python (We use Go)
• 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.
• 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 ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a broad pipeline of services.
• 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.

Bonus Points:

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.
• Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
• Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch.
• 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.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• 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 Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood 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.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

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