Engineer III, Cloud-Falcon For IT (Remote)

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

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company is seeking an experienced Back-End engineer for its cloud engineering team. This fully remote role involves leading engineering efforts, collaborating with multiple teams, and improving architecture and performance of the Falcon For IT product. Ideal candidates should have strong knowledge of distributed systems and cloud-based environments, with a passion for coding in production.

Benefits

Flexible work culture

Market leading compensation

Comprehensive wellness programs

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Ability to scale backend systems through sharding and partitioning.
• Desire to see code run in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering efforts for the Falcon For IT product.
• Collaborate with teams to build cloud applications.
• Evaluate product improvements in architecture and performance.

Skills

Cloud-based systems

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science or experience

Tools

Go (Golang)

AWS

Kafka

GIT

ElasticSearch

Redis

Python

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting 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.

About the Product: Falcon For IT is our newest product release, which helps IT & Security teams get answers to the most difficult questions about their infrastructure, apps, and endpoints, utilizing our Charlotte AI to ease usability and speed up response and remediation of issues. The product is a cloud-based solution allowing customers to query their entire endpoints to address IT challenges working in synergy with our Sensor, which is a driver installed on client machines that observes system activity and apps, recognizes malicious behavior, then provides on-box prevention capability and remote telemetry to the cloud.

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Back-End engineer to be part of the core Falcon For IT product group. In this role, you will be part of the cloud engineering team, responsible for the heart of the Falcon For IT module, working closely with other teams such as UI and Sensor.

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
• Leverage and build cloud-based systems in a micro-service driven environment.
• 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.
• We embrace a remote-first culture, and this role is fully remote.

What You'll Use:

• Go (Golang)
• AWS
• Kafka
• GIT
• ElasticSearch
• Redis
• Python

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 work run in production.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• 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.

Bonus Points:

• Authored and lead successful open-source libraries and projects.
• Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
• Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch.
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
• 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.

The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $120,000 - $180,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k, and paid time off.