Senior Backend Engineer, CrowdStrike

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you
• The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
• 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

Desirable

• We’re building the next-generation cloud-native security platform for CrowdStrike which includes an application and service delivery platform, massively scalable distributed data storage and replication systems, and a cutting-edge search and distributed graph system
• You will play a critical role in innovating and building the CrowdStrike Asset Graph system
• Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale
• If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at a high scale, you’ve come to the right place
• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products
• Design, develop, document, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale services
• Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables
• Triage system issues and debug by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations
• Mentor other engineers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability
• Partner with product teams in building their use-cases and solutions on the Asset Graph platform

• Expected Close Date of Job Posting is: 01-08-2025