Sr. Engineer - Cloud (Remote, IRE)

CrowdStrike; Jonesboro (TX); Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to innovate on their cloud-native security platform. This fully remote role requires over 10 years of experience in distributed systems, effectively leading projects and mentoring teams. Ideal candidates are eager to ship production-level code and improve service architecture. The position offers a flexible, remote work culture and comprehensive benefits including wellness programs and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

Comprehensive wellness programs

Competitive vacation

Paid parental and adoption leaves

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in building distributed services.
• Ability to scale backend systems and understand scalability challenges.
• Desire to ship production code.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering efforts across products.
• Design, develop, and maintain large scale services.
• Mentor other engineers on technologies.

Skills

Production-level experience with distributed services

Backend system scaling

Team player skills

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Go (Golang)

Java8

Python

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Role

We’re building the next-generation cloud-native security platform for CrowdStrike which includes an application and service delivery platform, massively scalable distributed data storage and replication systems, and a cutting-edge search and distributed graph system. You will play a critical role in innovating and building the CrowdStrike Asset Graph system.

Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale. If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at a high scale, you’ve come to the right place.

Location: This is a fully remote position open to candidates from all over Ireland.

What You'll Do

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
• 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, backend and data storage technologies and our system.
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
• Partner with product teams in building their use-cases and solutions on the Asset Graph platform.

What You'll Use

• Go (Golang)
• Java8
• Python
• GIT
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• ElasticSearch
• Kubernetes
• Postgres
• Redis
• AWS Cloud

What You’ll Need

• 10+ years of production-level experience in building, delivering, and maintaining distributed services architecture at scale
• 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
• Experience building Graph Storage or other database systems
• 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

Bonus Points

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects
• Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
• Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch
• Experience working on security products
• Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale
• You will help build a platform that scales to millions of events per second and Terabytes of data per day. If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at high scale, you’ve come to the right place.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
• 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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