
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud/Backend
CrowdStrike
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sunnyvale • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Leveraging and building cloud based systems to detect targeted attacks at a global scale.
- Brainstorming, designing, and building collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
- Mentoring and helping your fellow Crowdstrike engineers grow.
- Delivering and accepting feedback with grace and courtesy.
- Building elegant solutions for complex technical problems in Go.
- Reading code in the multiple programming languages in use in our environment (Go, Python, Unix shell, among others).
- Focusing on continual learning, raising the bar for both yourself and your teammates.
- Leveraging our understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean.
- Being an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and when leading a team.
Requirements
- A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.)
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling back-end systems in production.
- Team player skills – we embrace collaboration.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
- Understanding of Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch/Opensearch, and Redis/Valkey.
- Prior experience with any of: Go, Scala, Python, Java, C#, or C++
- Prior experience with cloud services, such as AWS, GCP, or OCI, particularly compute and storage offerings.
- Prior experience with Apache Flink or other similar stream processing systems is a plus
- Experience developing and deploying into Linux.
- If you have some but not all of the qualifications, but bring a passion for cybersecurity, we’d like to talk.
Benefits
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
GoPythonUnix shellCassandraKafkaElasticsearchRedisAWSGCPLinux
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationfeedbackself-starterownershipaccountabilityteam playercommunicationproblem solvingcontinuous learning