Senior Cloud Backend Engineer, Auth & Scale

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Paid time off

Job summary

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer to join the cloud authentication/authorization team. You will build scalable services handling authN/authZ for internal and external actors, interfacing across multiple CrowdStrike products.

We value distributed systems expertise, Go and cloud tech, and a bias for shipping robust software. This hybrid role requires 2-3 days on-site in Sunnyvale, CA, with strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems.
• 6+ years of backend development experience.
• Ability to scale backend systems - sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally.
• Love shipping production code and owning deliverables.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.

Responsibilities

• 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 at global scale.
• Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
• Mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system.
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture and performance.
• Be an energetic, self-starting contributor with ownership of deliverables.
• Use and contribute to open-source communities.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go (Golang)

Multi-threading

API design

Team collaboration

CI/CD & code reviews

Performance optimization

AI-enabled workflows

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Go (Golang)

AWS

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Redis

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Job description

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer to join the cloud authentication/authorization team. You will build scalable services handling authN/authZ for internal and external actors, interfacing across multiple CrowdStrike products.

We value distributed systems expertise, Go and cloud tech, and a bias for shipping robust software. This hybrid role requires 2-3 days on-site in Sunnyvale, CA, with strong collaboration across teams.