Software Engineer III, Cloud (Hybrid, Dublin)

CrowdStrike; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation & holidays

Parental leaves

Professional development opportunities

Employee networks & volunteer programs

Office culture

Great Place to Work Certified

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a backend software engineer to help design and scale the next generation of the Kestrel UI/backend stack. You will work across distributed systems, API surfaces, and data stores to ship reliable features used by hundreds of UI engineers.

You will collaborate with multiple backend teams, core services, and product teams to deliver high-scale services while emphasizing performance, testing, and operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms and distributed systems.
• Ability to scale backend systems - sharding, partitioning, horizontal scaling is second nature.
• Love of shipping code and seeing it run in production.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Team player who collaborates across teams.
• Strong engineering practices: testing, code reviews, resilient architecture.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, test-driven environment.
• Meets commitments on time with quality software.
• Experience using AI to enhance decision-making and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, document, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale services.
• Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Triage issues and debug impact on service operations.
• Mentor other engineers on web and backend services.
• Continuously improve architecture, testing, and observability.
• Collaborate with product teams to document requirements and implement features.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities to maximize service availability.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Python

GIT

Cassandra

Kafka

OpenSearch

Kubernetes

Postgres

Redis

AWS Cloud

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Job description

Ireland - Remote

Full time

R30503

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects 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. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

We are building the next generation of our UI foundation for CrowdStrike's platform called Kestrel ( which includes new UI and backend features to help customers 'Stop the Breach' by unifying data across security domains, streamlining access to the most important security information, and allowing users to more effectively personalize their user experience by role. You will play a key role in innovating, building and maintaining critical backend features in support of the Kestrel platform.

Bring your experience in distributed technologies, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at high scale. Your work will enable hundreds of our UI engineers spread across dozens of feature teams to build the experience customers need to keep pace with and respond to adversaries by leveraging the power of the CrowdStrike platform in the most effective manner for their respective teams. You will be working with multiple backend teams, core service teams, and UI + backend feature teams to bring this new feature to life.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is open to candidates based within 30 miles of Dublin, only.

While the position is fully remote for now, CrowdStrike plans to open a Dublin and office (within the next 18-24 months). Once the office is established, we anticipate a hybrid working arrangement of approximately 2 -3 days per week in office _._

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, document, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale services.
• Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Triage system issues and debug by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations.
• Mentor other engineers on web and backend engineers on use of our feature services.
• Constantly re-evaluate our products to improve architecture, testing coverage, knowledge models, user experience, performance, observability and stability.
• Partner with product teams in understanding their needs, work with PM to document the new requirements, and implement those new features within our feature services
• Participate in on-call responsibilities for the sustainment and maximizing the availability of the service

What You'll Use:

• Go (Golang)
• Python
• GIT
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• OpenSearch
• Kubernetes
• Postgres
• Redis
• AWS Cloud

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 bits run in production.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• 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.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Points:

• Existing exposure to Go,AWS, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch.
• Experience working on security products.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• 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. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

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CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 to fix a fundamental problem: The sophisticated attacks that were forcing the world's leading businesses into the headlines could not be solved with existing malware-based defenses. Founder George Kurtz realized that a brand new approach was needed - one that combines the most advanced endpoint protection with expert intelligence to pinpoint the adversaries perpetrating the attacks, not just the malware.

There's much more to the story of how Falcon has redefined endpoint protection but there's only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.