Back-End Engineer, Healthcare Applications – HIPAA & HITECH
ICP
CloudDockerKubernetesMicroservicesNoSQLSQLTerraform
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Ingestion
CrowdStrike
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $140,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AndroidAWSAzureCassandraCloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformiOSKafkaLinuxOpen SourceScala
About the role
- Manage network communications event traffic between CrowdStrike's security cloud and customer resources
- Build and operate ultra-high volume services (primarily written in Golang) supported by Kafka
- Work with network connections and protocols (negotiating TLS, balancing network connections, managing virtual sessions, distributing dynamic content, managing datastreams)
- Serve as a Major Initiative Lead with high autonomy and high expectations, designing proprietary Cloud Protocol(s)
- Collaborate closely with Falcon Sensor teams across platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android)
- Apply experience with large-scale distributed systems across a range of services and multi-tenant architectures
- Focus on performance optimization, scalability, sharding/partitioning, and horizontal scaling
- Troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across pipelines of services
- Ship production-quality code, participate in code reviews, and follow testing and CI practices
- Collaborate across teams including engineering, product management, support, and sales engineering to deliver features
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
- Over 7 years' experience in a full-time backend software development role
- Ample experience building high volume services and systems for a cloud-delivered SaaS product
- Solid grounding in the technology of at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally
- The ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a pipeline of services
- Desire to ship code and love of seeing your bits run in production
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies
- A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment
- Skills to meet commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration
- Ability to brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
- Solid design and problem solving skills with demonstrated passion for engineering excellence, quality, security and performance
- Strong cross-group collaboration and interpersonal communication skills working with engineering, product management, support and sales engineering
- Willingness to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint checks consistent with government customer requirements
- Bonus points:
- Industry experience in implementing web servers and load balancers
- Authored and lead successful open source libraries and projects
- Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
- Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch
- Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields
Benefits
- Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
- 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
- Health insurance
- 401k
- Paid time off
- Eligibility for bonuses and equity grants
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
GolangKafkadistributed systemscloud computingmulti-threadingconcurrencyparallel processingperformance optimizationscalabilitytesting
Soft skills
collaborationproblem solvinginterpersonal communicationtime managementengineering excellenceadaptabilityleadershipcommitmentcreativityattention to detail
Certifications
degree in Computer Science
