Sr. Engineer Engineer - Cloud, Core API (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Paid parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead initiatives across API Gateway and platform services. Join a high-scale environment building a distributed backend capable of processing millions of events per second.

You will design and implement cloud-based systems, mentor peers, and push for architecture improvements while embracing a fast-paced, test-driven culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience scaling backend systems (sharding, partitioning, horizontal scaling).
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and concurrency.
• Love of shipping production-grade code.
• Experience with AI-related decision support is a plus.
• Ability to work across multiple teams and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering efforts from prototypes to large-scale apps.
• Build cloud-based systems to detect attacks and automate threat intel at global scale.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to define and implement solutions.
• Champion new technologies and raise the team's technical IQ.
• Mentor junior developers in web, backend, and data storage tech.
• Continuously re-evaluate architecture for performance and reliability.
• Own deliverables and drive them to completion.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend scalability

Team collaboration

Performance optimization

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Go

Python

AWS

Kafka

GraphQL

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

Redis

Postgres

ZMQ

Hadoop

Job description

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:

You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for APIGW (API Gateway team) and API's. An API gateway is a very critical component which provides centralized handling of API communication between Multiple Microservices. API Gateway is responsible for tasks such as traffic management, authentication and authorization, monitoring and API versioning.

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.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.

What You'll Do:

• 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.

What You'll Use:

• Go (Golang)
• Python
• AWS
• Kafka
• GIT
• Cassandra
• ElasticSearch
• Redis
• Postgres
• ZMQ
• Hadoop
• AWS Cloud
• GraphQL

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.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• 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:

• 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, Elasticsearch...
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields

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 connection