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

Position: Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud Security - FCS Registration (Hybrid)
Location: New York

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* About the Role:

** 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 security 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.
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* What You’ll Do:

*** 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.
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* What You’ll Need:

*** 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.
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* Bonus Points:

*** 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 application logs and event data in Elasticsearch.
* Experience with Cassandra, CQL, and its wide-column store database.
* Experience using graph structures (ie. nodes, edges), graph data, and graph databases.#LI-JC1#LI-OC1

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 Crowd Strike:
*** 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
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