Senior Backend Engineer, CrowdStrike
Platform
AI-native cybersecurity platform
Open for applications
AI-native cybersecurity platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
CrowdStrike is on a mission to stop breaches. Its purpose is to provide safety and security to some of the world’s largest, most influential companies and, by extension, the billions of people around the world who use their services.
Role
Who you are
- Evaluation process: we're looking for engineers with experience in developing scalable cloud solutions in any programming language
- Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
- Very good understanding of:
- Web services / APIs and experience with integrating disparate systems
- Multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies
- Distributed systems and scalability challenges
- Team player skills - collaboration is key to building the best solutions
- 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
Desirable
- Providing components or systems in a platform team to internal users
- Experience with GraphQL APIs
- Operating in complex multi-cloud environments
- Understanding of data security principles and best practices
What the job involves
- As part of the Cloud Engineering Platform Data organization you will build globally distributed, fault-tolerant and highly-scalable cloud-based systems using microservices architecture. You will lay the foundation that will enable CrowdStrike to continue pushing the state of the art for security services
- Many other teams will be leveraging the core pieces of infrastructure you help build to further enhance security products and make cyberspace a safer place
- You would be part of a team which is building multiple components for the Data Platform: A Graph Database, a Cloud Scheduling System and a Cross Cloud Data Synchronization System
- Be part of engineering efforts turning rapid prototypes into large-scale core services
- Leverage and build cloud based services to support our top rated security intelligence platform
- Keep petabytes of critical business data safe, secure, and available
- Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
- Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team
- Be mentored and mentor other developers on backend and data storage technologies
- Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability
- Be an energetic “self-starter” with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables
- Use and give back to the open source community
Application process
- Interviewing process: online
Our take
Since CrowdStrike was founded by a trio of former McAfee executives in 2011, it’s grown into a thousands-strong, NASDAQ-listed company. With customers including Verizon, Deloitte, and Goldman Sachs, it’s considered one of the world’s top enterprise cybersecurity vendors along with the likes of Cisco, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks.
One of the reasons behind CrowdStrike's continued success is its ability to keep pace with the evolving tech market, for instance with its Generative AI security analyst that leverages recent developments in AI. Although not immune to the slowdown of the global economy, the company's modular design has given it the upper hand, allowing clients to consolidate their security spend with CrowdStrike instead of selecting packages from multiple vendors at a higher overall cost.
With long-term demand for cybersecurity products growing, and its reputation as strong as ever, CrowdStrike shows no signs of slowing down. It has partnered with Ignition Technology to double down on its UK presence, and continues to be a voice in the wider market through its "Falcon Fund" investment vehicle and position as a founding member of NIST's Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC).
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2018
$200m
SERIES E
Oct 2017
$25m
SERIES D
Total funding: $475.9m
Company benefits
- Competitive Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Comprehensive Health Benefits
- Parental & Fertility Assistance
- Remote-first culture
- Health & Wellness Programs
- Professional Development
- Executive Coaching & Mentorship
- Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration
- Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
Company values
- Automony
- Flexibility
- Trust
Company HQ
Heritage District, Sunnyvale, CA
Articles
Leadership
George Kurtz
(President & CEO)Founded security software company Foundstone in 1999, operating as CEO until McAfee's $90m acquisition in 2004. Spent the next seven years at McAfee in a number of executive roles including SVP of Enterprise and CTO.
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