Backend Engineer II (Pune, Hybrid)

CrowdStrike Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Parental leave

Professional development

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

CrowdStrike in Pune, India, seeks an Engineer II to join the Data Onboarding Team under NG-SIEM. You will enable onboarding for third‑party data sources, handling petabytes of data daily across multiple regions, and support production systems with sub‑second latency.

The role involves building scalable data pipelines in Go and collaborating with UI, UX and Data Science teams. You will contribute to platform‑level initiatives, tackle high‑availability and performance challenges, and own features

Qualifications

• CS degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in a cross-functional team with UI/UX and data scientists.
• 4+ years designing and maintaining software in a SaaS/delivery model.
• Fluency in Go and exposure to streaming systems.

Responsibilities

• Enable onboarding for 3rd party data sources with petabyte-scale ingestion.
• Collaborate with UI, UX and Data Scientists on platform initiatives.
• Improve availability, reliability, performance and cost optimizations.
• Develop systems in Go and support multi-region production environments.

Skills

Go programming

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

MS SQL

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

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 seeking an Engineer II to be part of the Data Onboarding Team under NG-SIEM. The group focuses on enabling 3rd party data ingestion and onboarding experience for NG-SIEM customers, ingesting several petabytes of data per day across multiple regions from 100+ 3rd party data sources. Data Onboarding is the first critical step for a customer’s journey into NG-SIEM and data volume directly correlates with our ability to detect and hunt threats effectively. Our platform is growing to include all 1st and 3rd party data-sources and needs to scale to support unlimited data ingestion and enable customers to ingest all data. You will be part of a team and enable our vision to achieve a frictionless onboarding experience across hundreds of different data sources, including leveraging AI to build autonomous agents that facilitate seamless data onboarding for our customers. You will be contributing to key product initiatives that will require you to collaborate with team members on platform-level initiatives, with opportunities to contribute to cross-team projects in CrowdStrike. This role is open to candidates located in India, Pune.

What You'll Do:

• Work on enabling onboarding for 3rd party data sources with petabyte-scale data ingestion at millions of events per second at sub-second latencies.
• Work as part of a cross‑functional team including UI, UX and Data Scientists
• Contribute to Solving hard problems in distributed systems, including high availability, reliability, performance and cost optimizations
• Develop systems in Go
• Support globally available, multi‑region systems in production
• Collaborate with the team with opportunity to participate in cross‑team platform‑level initiatives and projects

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Work as part of a cross‑functional team including UI, UX and Data Scientists
• 4+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple software products/systems/releases, preferably in a SaaS delivery model, across all phases of the development lifecycle.
• availability, reliability, performance and cost optimizations
• Experience with at least one transactional DB (Postgres, MS SQL, or any other)
• Collaborate with the team with opportunity to participate in cross‑team platform‑level initiatives and projects
• Fluency in at least one programming language, preferably Go.
• Experience with at least one streaming system like Apache Kafka, Rabbit MQ or any other.
• Product focus mindset and strong ownership based on the mindset “you built it, you own it”
• Good communication skills; working collaboratively and confidently with internal stakeholders.
• Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization
• Experience or interest in driving agentic-AI projects
• Experience with Commercial clouds (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Prior experience in Cybersecurity #LI-DP1

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.

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