Senior Cloud Backend Engineer — Auth & Scale

CrowdStrike Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Health insurance

401k

Paid time off

Professional development

Wellness programs

Office culture

Great Place to Work Certified

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to join the cloud authentication and authorization platform. You will design and scale services handling authN/authZ for internal and external users, working with Go, AWS, Kafka and GraphQL to process huge data and decisions per day.

You’ll collaborate across teams, mentor peers, and push for robust, scalable architectures while contributing to open source and staying at the forefront of AI-driven security. Hybrid onsite 2–3 days.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems.
• 12+ years of backend development experience.
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.

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 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

Skills

Go

OAuth

AWS

Kafka

GIT

Elasticsearch

Redis

Postgres

GraphQL

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Job description

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to join the cloud authentication and authorization platform. You will design and scale services handling authN/authZ for internal and external users, working with Go, AWS, Kafka and GraphQL to process huge data and decisions per day.

You’ll collaborate across teams, mentor peers, and push for robust, scalable architectures while contributing to open source and staying at the forefront of AI-driven security. Hybrid onsite 2–3 days.