Senior Cloud Backend Engineer – AI-Driven Platform

CrowdStrike; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

CrowdStrike, a global leader in cybersecurity, is seeking a senior backend engineer for the Spotlight platform. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native services powering vulnerability assessment at global scale.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, reliability, and AI-assisted development in a security-focused environment. Join a mission-driven team delivering real-time, zero-impact assessments and scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of backend engineering experience.
• Solid experience with Golang/Java in production systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (S3, SQS, and similar).
• Experience with Kafka or other event streaming platforms.
• Strong database skills - Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Redis, or similar distributed data stores.
• Hands-on use of frontier-model SDKs (Anthropic, OpenAI, or similar) and AI-assisted development tools, with a realistic view of their capabilities and limits.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-m

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-throughput, low-latency backend services and APIs in Golang and Python.
• Architect and operate cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP at scale (S3, SQS, Kubernetes/KEDA, and more).
• Build and maintain Kafka-based event streaming pipelines for near-real-time vulnerability event processing.
• Drive backend engineering and process automation across the platform.
• Partner with security researchers and platform teams to deliver integrated capabilities.
• Own service reliability - performance profiling, incident response, and root cause analysis on time-sensitive production issues.
• Continuously re-engineer for improved architecture, performance, and stability.
• Write high-quality, well-tested, production-ready code with a focus on observability and operability.
• Build agentic capabilities into the product - systems that reason over real data, use tools, and produce explainable results customers can act on.
• Take AI capabilities from prototype to production, owning latency, cost, correctness, and evaluation.
• Design the guardrails and policies that make autonomous reasoning safe for enterprise customers.

Skills

Golang

Java

Distributed systems

Microservices

AWS

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Redis

AI SDKs

Anthropic/OpenAI

Tools

S3

SQS

Kubernetes/KEDA

Job description

CrowdStrike, a global leader in cybersecurity, is seeking a senior backend engineer for the Spotlight platform. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native services powering vulnerability assessment at global scale.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, reliability, and AI-assisted development in a security-focused environment. Join a mission-driven team delivering real-time, zero-impact assessments and scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP.