Engineer III, Cloud - Authentication & Authorization (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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.

Formación

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

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Go programming

Cloud architecture

Herramientas

Go (Golang)

OAuth

AWS

Kafka

GIT

ElasticSearch

Redis

Postgres

gRPC

Descripción del empleo

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:

You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for authentication and authorization. The Auth team is responsible for both internal (e.g. Service-to-service authorization, etc.) and external (e.g. user login, etc) authN and authZ. The team is a critical part of cloud, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups. The team builds and extends services that can make 1+ trillion decisions per day! Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale. You will help build a platform that scales to millions of events per second and Terabytes of data per day. If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at high scale, you’ve come to the right place. This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products
• Leverage and build cloud-based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale
• Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
• Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team
• Be mentored and mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability
• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables
• Use and give back to the open-source community

What You’ll Use:

• Go (Golang)
• OAuth
• AWS
• Kafka
• GIT
• ElasticSearch
• Redis
• Postgres
• AWS
• gRPC