Senior Cloud Backend Engineer: AI-Driven Security at Scale

CrowdStrike; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Professional development

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join the Spotlight platform team. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native services powering our endpoint vulnerability assessment capabilities at global scale.

You will work with Golang and Python, build on AWS and GCP, and pursue scalable, observable, and secure systems while advancing AI-assisted features. A strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and collaboration with global teams defines this role.

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.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of an organization.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working in a global team.
• Commitment to software quality — unit tested, code reviewed, and continuously integrated.

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.
• 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

Python

Distributed systems

Microservices

AWS

GCP

Kafka

AI tooling

Communication

Team collaboration

Observability

Code quality

Tools

Kafka

Cassandra

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Redis

Kubernetes

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join the Spotlight platform team. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native services powering our endpoint vulnerability assessment capabilities at global scale.

You will work with Golang and Python, build on AWS and GCP, and pursue scalable, observable, and secure systems while advancing AI-assisted features. A strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and collaboration with global teams defines this role.