Cloud Backend Engineer — Auth & Scale (Go/AWS)

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CrowdStrike in Sunnyvale is seeking a backend engineering lead for the cloud platform responsible for authentication and authorization services. You will drive design and implementation of scalable services handling trillions of decisions per day, collaborating across product groups and mentoring teammates.

The role emphasizes distributed technologies, API design, and data storage at extreme scale, with a hybrid schedule requiring 2-3 days on-site.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting backend services at scale.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and APIs.
• Proficiency with cloud-based backend technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering efforts from prototypes to large-scale apps.
• Collaborate across multiple teams on cloud-based solutions.
• Mentor peers in web, backend and storage technologies.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go programming

Cloud architecture

Tools

Go (Golang)

OAuth

AWS

Kafka

GIT

ElasticSearch

Redis

Postgres

gRPC

Job description

CrowdStrike in Sunnyvale is seeking a backend engineering lead for the cloud platform responsible for authentication and authorization services. You will drive design and implementation of scalable services handling trillions of decisions per day, collaborating across product groups and mentoring teammates.

The role emphasizes distributed technologies, API design, and data storage at extreme scale, with a hybrid schedule requiring 2-3 days on-site.