Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud Security - FCS Registration; Hybrid

Crowd Strike, Inc.

Full time

R27162

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. 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.

Falcon Cloud Security (FCS) is a key product area for Crowd Strike. We’re extending Crowd Strike’s mission of "stopping breaches" into the public cloud and cloud-native workloads. Crowd Strike’s FCS Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) offering provides visibility into your entire cloud infrastructure, continuous monitoring for misconfigurations, and proactive threat detection — allowing Dev Sec Ops  teams to fix issues faster and be more productive.

As a member of the Falcon Horizon control plane group, you will be part of a fast-paced team taking on cloud-scale challenges and raising the bar on Cloud Security Posture Management.

This role is hybrid, on-site at one of the posted locations. Candidate should be comfortable visiting the office twice a week once the development center is established.

• Develop Go-based microservices to support new and existing features which help detect cyber attacks, as well as RESTful APIs to support and expand our industry leading CSPM platform.

• Take end-to-end ownership, both individually, and as part of a team, for the delivery of projects of increasing complexity.

• Relentlessly pursue quality by following engineering best practices including:
  Appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, monitoring, and resilient architecture patterns.

• Utilize Kafka for event-driven workflows; and Cassandra, Elastic Search, or Postgre
  
  SQL for data storage.

• Provide on-call monitoring and operational & customer support for production services owned by our team.

• Reflect thoughtfully to improve architecture, models, user experience, performance, and stability following rapid prototyping and fast-paced decision making.

• Ultimately, develop a platform to help secure the entire lifecycle of cloud workloads for Crowd Strike customers.

• U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident and work solely from U.S. soil

• Experience programming in at least one object-oriented programming language, featuring strong types. We write code in Golang. Learn it on the job with us!

• Experience developing and consuming RESTful API web services.

• Experience working with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Cloud Formation, Terraform and Azure Templates.

• Hands‑on experience deploying, configuring, and using Docker containers in Kubernetes environments with Helm.

• Experience using a message queue. We use Kafka and SQS. (e.g., defining messages, estimating message sizes and rates, monitoring lag)

• Experience using RDBMS databases, and accompanying knowledge of SQL, such as Postgres.

• Strong debugging skills: ability to spot design flaws, race conditions and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience. Proficiency with common algorithms, data structures, code whiteboarding.

• Prior industry experience or certification related to CNAPP, CSPM or Cloud Security.

• Experience with application observability incl. Prometheus metrics, Splunk logging, Grafana dashboards, and Pager Duty alerts.

• Experience handling production challenges related to Postgres, Kubernetes, and Kafka.

• Understanding data structures and various APIs, for full-text search of…