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CrowdStrike · 4 hours ago

Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - Ingestion (Remote)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $215K/yr

7+ years exp

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to stopping breaches with their advanced AI-native platform. The role involves managing network communications event traffic and working with large-scale distributed systems to enhance the company's mission.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesCloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork Security

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

Responsibilities

As a Major Initiative Lead you will have high autonomy with high expectations, often serving as a guiding hand in designing things like proprietary Cloud Protocol(s), and working closely with Falcon Sensor teams for each of the platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android)

Your details-oriented mindset and performance focus will allow CrowdStrike to scale into the future

If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at high-scale, you’ve come to the right place

Qualification

GolangDistributed systemsCloud environmentPerformance optimizationKafkaMulti-threadingConcurrencyScalability challengesEngineering best practicesTeam playerProblem solvingInterpersonal communicationCollaborative environment

Required

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 are second nature to you

The ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a pipeline of services

The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production

Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, 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

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 a variety of roles; including engineering, product management, support and sales engineering