Engineer III, Cloud (Remote)

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm is seeking talented developers to innovate and maintain their 'Kestrel' platform. This position emphasizes strong backend development in NodeJS, TypeScript, and Go, alongside experience in distributed systems, to enhance user experiences across their solutions. Join a mission-driven company that champions cybersecurity and empowers its employees through a flexible and remote-friendly culture.

Benefits

Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

Market leader in compensation and equity awards

Comprehensive wellness programs

Competitive vacation and holiday policy

Paid parental and adoption leave

Professional development opportunities

Vibrant office culture with amenities

Qualifications

• Experience in distributed technologies and APIs.
• Ability to scale backend systems effectively.
• Understanding of engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale services.
• Debug and triage system issues as needed.
• Collaborate with product teams to implement new features.

Skills

NodeJS

TypeScript

Go (Golang)

Distributed Systems

API Design

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Job description

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches, redefining modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, relying on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, communities safe, and lives moving forward. We cultivate a culture that offers flexibility and autonomy, empowering our team members to own their careers. We are seeking talented individuals with passion, innovation, and a commitment to our community and customers. Join us in a mission that matters—the future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

We are developing the next-generation UI for CrowdStrike's platform, called Kestrel. This includes new UI and backend features to help customers 'Stop the Breach' by unifying data across security domains, streamlining access to critical security information, and enabling personalized user experiences by role. You will play a key role in innovating, building, and maintaining essential backend features for the Kestrel platform.

Additionally, we maintain existing services written in Node.js that manage dynamic content and localization within our console, bridging our Cloud (Go Lang) services with front-end UI applications.

Bring your experience with distributed technologies, strong API and systems design skills, and a passion for high-performance code. You will collaborate with multiple backend teams, core service teams, and UI + backend feature teams to bring these features to life.

If this challenge aligns with your experience and skills, submit your resume for a conversation.

This position is open for UK and European remote roles.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, document, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale services.
• Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Triage system issues and debug by analyzing sources of issues and their impact on service operations.
• Continuously evaluate and improve architecture, testing coverage, user experience, performance, observability, and stability.
• Partner with product teams to understand needs, document requirements, and implement new features.

What You’ll Use:

• NodeJS
• TypeScript
• Go (Golang)

What You’ll Need:

• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in data structures, algorithms, or distributed systems.
• Experience in scaling backend systems, including sharding, partitioning, and horizontal scaling.
• A passion for shipping code and seeing it run in production.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Team collaboration skills and adherence to engineering best practices.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative environment.
• Consistent delivery of high-quality, well-tested software.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Go, AWS, and Jenkins.
• Experience working on security products.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture.
• Competitive compensation and equity awards.
• Wellness programs and professional development opportunities.
• Employee networks and community-building activities.
• Vibrant office culture with amenities.

CrowdStrike is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a culture of belonging and supporting veterans and individuals with disabilities. We do not discriminate based on race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic. For assistance, contact [e-mail].

About Us

CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 to address the limitations of malware-based defenses against sophisticated attacks. Founder George Kurtz envisioned a new approach combining advanced endpoint protection with expert intelligence to identify adversaries, not just malware. Today, we continue to innovate and lead in cybersecurity, with a core mission to stop breaches.