Cloud Backend Engineer – AuthN/AuthZ at Scale

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading compensation

Wellness programs

Generous vacation

Paid parental leave

Professional development

Diversity & inclusion

Great Place to Work

Job summary

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead engineering efforts across CrowdStrike products.

You will work on authentication and authorization services that support millions of decisions per second, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver scalable cloud-based solutions. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with Go, cloud technologies, and distributed systems, and relish shipping high-quality, tested production code.

Qualifications

• 7+ years backend development in production for a Cloud SaaS or similar service-oriented architecture.
• Experience with AuthN and AuthZ.
• Experience building high-scale event-driven microservices (≥5M events/day).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and concurrency.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering efforts from prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
• Build cloud-based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate intelligence production at global scale.
• Mentor other developers and continuously improve architecture and performance.

Skills

Go

OAuth

Python

AWS

Kafka

GIT

Cassandra

ElasticSearch

Redis

Postgres

GraphQL

ZMQ

AWS Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead engineering efforts across CrowdStrike products.

You will work on authentication and authorization services that support millions of decisions per second, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver scalable cloud-based solutions. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with Go, cloud technologies, and distributed systems, and relish shipping high-quality, tested production code.