Software Engineer II, Cloud (Dublin, Hybrid)

CrowdStrike Inc.; Dublin; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market compensation

Wellness programs

Generous vacation

Parental leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Office culture

Great Place to Work

Job summary

CrowdStrike is hiring for a backend-focused role within the Kestrel UI foundation. You will design and maintain large-scale backend services, working across Go, Python, and cloud-native stacks to unify security data and enhance user experiences by role.

The role emphasizes ownership, scalable architectures, and collaboration with product teams. Remote-friendly with future hybrid office plans in Dublin.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems.
• Ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, horizontal scaling.
• Desire to ship code and see it in production.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Team player with collaborative approach.
• Strong engineering practices: testing, peer reviews, resilient architecture.
• Experience with AI technologies to enhance decision-making and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, document, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale services.
• Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Triage system issues and debug impact on operations.
• Mentor other engineers in web and backend feature services.
• Continuously improve architecture, testing coverage, observability, and performance.
• Collaborate with product teams to document requirements and implement features.
• Participate in on-call duties to maximize service availability.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Testing

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Cassandra

Kafka

OpenSearch

Postgres

Redis

AWS

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

We are building the next generation of our UI foundation for CrowdStrike's platform called Kestrel which includes new UI and backend features to help customers 'Stop the Breach' by unifying data across security domains, streamlining access to the most important security information, and allowing users to more effectively personalize their user experience by role. You will play a key role in innovating, building and maintaining critical backend features in support of the Kestrel platform.

Please note: This role is open to candidates based within 30 miles of Dublin, only.

While the position is fully remote for now, CrowdStrike plans to open a Dublin office (within the next 18-24 months). Once the office is established, we anticipate a hybrid working arrangement of approximately 2 -3 days per week in office.

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 the sources of issues and the impact on service operations.
• Mentor other engineers on web and backend engineers on use of our feature services.
• Constantly re-evaluate our products to improve architecture, testing coverage, knowledge models, user experience, performance, observability and stability.
• Partner with product teams in understanding their needs, work with PM to document the new requirements, and implement those new features within our feature services
• Participate in on-call responsibilities for the sustainment and maximizing the availability of the service

What You’ll Use

• Go (Golang)
• Python
• GIT
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• OpenSearch
• Kubernetes
• Postgres
• Redis
• AWS Cloud

What You’ll Need

• 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.
• Solid 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 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

• Existing exposure to Go,AWS, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch.
• Experience working on security products.

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.

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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Bonus Points

• Existing exposure to Go,AWS, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch.
• Experience working on security products.