CrowdStrike

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud/Backend

CrowdStrike

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: SunnyvaleCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $215,000 per year

Job Level

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