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Sr. Engineer II - Cloud Platform (Remote)

AT CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike

Sr. Engineer II - Cloud Platform (Remote)

Remote

#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters - and this traffic is growing daily. We're looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

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About The Role:

You'll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for managing the

customer lifecycle and their product experience. Whenever a new customer onboards on the the Falcon

platform, getting them operational could mean initializing them in our customer stores, setting up

required policies, setting up management groups for their machines, initializing data stores, enabling

configuration for them in several different dependent services etc, our team manages the automation

of this orchestration to give our customers an seamless experience. As part of the team you will play a

critical role in enhancing the existing flow and building the next generation provisioning systems.

This is a hybrid position open to candidates in Irvine, CA and Sunnyvale, CA. We are also open

for US Remote roles.

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
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.
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.
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!

#LI-MG1
#LI-Remote

#HTF
This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
  • Remote-first culture
  • Market leader in compensation and equity awards
  • Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
  • Comprehensive and inclusive health benefits
  • Physical and mental wellness programs
  • Paid parental leave, including adoption
  • A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities
  • Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration
We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone feels seen, heard, valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. Our approach to cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture is rooted in listening, learning and collective action. By embracing the diversity of our people, we achieve our best work and fuel innovation - generating the best possible outcomes for our customers and the communities they serve.

CrowdStrike is committed to maintaining an environment of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact Recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.

Job ID: CrowdStrike-R18787
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • FSA
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • Company Equity
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns