Sr. Backend Engineer; Hybrid

As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike 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 Crowd Strike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every Crowd Striker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers 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.

We're building the next generation of cloud security at Crowd Strike, and we need passionate engineers to help us revolutionize threat detection. As a Software Engineer on the cloud detection engine team, you'll architect and implement a cutting-edge detection system that processes billions of events across multi-cloud environments. You'll work on implementing our innovative technologies like custom query languages, event orchestration systems, and advanced correlation engines to detect sophisticated cloud-based threats.

Collaborate with world-class security researchers to transform their expertise into scalable detection capabilities that protect organizations worldwide. Our team operates at the intersection of distributed systems, data engineering, and security analytics, building a composable and modular architecture that enables continuous innovation. If you're excited about designing elegant systems that can identify real-world threats, processing complex event patterns with minimal latency, and working on challenges that directly impact the security of thousands of organizations, we want to hear from you.

Join us in building the technology that stops breaches before they happen.

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across Crowd Strike 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 given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment
• The technology stack you’ll use will include:
  • Go (Golang)
  • AWS/GCP/Azure/Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • GIT
  • Cassandra
  • Docker
  • Redis

• Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
• Understanding scalability and distributed systems i.e. sharding, partitioning, concurrency, etc
• Being a team player
• 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.

• Contributions to the open-source community (Git Hub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
• Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch...
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence field
• Experience in thinking about, designing, or implementing programming languages and/or compilers
• Interesting hobbies

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• Comprehensive physical and…