Senior Backend Cloud Engineer

CrowdStrike

full-time

Posted on: 8/27/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $140,000 - $215,000 per year

Senior

AWSCassandraCloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsDockerElasticSearchGoGrafanaJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPostgresPythonRedis

About the role

Build Go-based microservices and RESTful APIs for the Next-gen SIEM product.
Take end-to-end ownership of projects and collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers.
Mentor junior engineers via pair programming, code reviews, and one-on-one knowledge sharing.
Improve architecture, user experience, performance, latency, and stability.
Follow engineering best practices: testing, peer code reviews, logging, monitoring, resilient architecture.
Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, and PostgreSQL for event-driven workflows, caching, and storage.
Provide monitoring and operational & customer support for production services owned by the team.

Computer science degree or commensurate experience.
Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, RESTful patterns, and multithreading concepts; knowledge of software development best practices and willingness to learn more.
Proficiency building and scaling services in production using Go, Python, Java, or C#.
Track record of leading projects and delivery on schedule.
Passion for customer success and guides decisions with the end user in mind.
Effective communication across functions and levels throughout the company.
Initiative to pick up and fix issues as you find them, without waiting to be assigned. Bonus Points:
Currently developing Go-based web services for scalable microservices architectures.
Familiarity with AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis, Grafana.
Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience working in cybersecurity or intelligence fields.