Sr. Engineer - Backend​/Cloud, SCP; Hybrid

Overview

Crowd Strike is a global leader in cybersecurity focused on stopping breaches with an AI-native platform. We seek talented Crowd Strikers who are passionate about innovation, customer success, and collaboration to join a mission-driven team.

You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in Sensor Control Plane (SCP), which is part of the Sensor Foundation group. The SCP team is responsible for the control plane, a digital component that manages the flow of data across the network. While the control plane does not transfer data, it serves as the digital control center to orchestrate communication between network elements and manage decision-making related to routing, configurations, resource allocation and policy enforcement.

This role is a hybrid role, working out of one of the posted locations:
Sunnyvale, CA;
Redmond, WA;
Austin, TX requiring 2 days per week in office.

• 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 and 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.

• Go (Golang)
• Java8
• Python
• AWS
• Kafka
• GIT
• Cassandra
• Elastic Search
• Redis
• MySQL
• ZMQ
• Hadoop
• AWS Cloud
• GraphQL

• 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.

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.
• 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 fields

• 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
• Great Place to Work Certified across the globe

Crowd Strike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

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