Senior Backend Software Engineer, CrowdStrike

• 10+ years of backend object-oriented development experience in production, with any of: Golang, Java, Scala, Node.js, Python or C# (.NET Core)
• Recent experience building high scale event driven microservices architecture (at least 10M events/day +)
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you
• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
• The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
• Deep understanding of 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

Desirable

• You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for authentication and authorization. The Auth team is responsible for both internal (e.g. Service-to-service authorization, etc.) and external (e.g. user login, etc) authN and authZ
• The team is a critical part of our flagship product group supporting the Falcon Platform, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups
• The team builds and extends services that are capable of making millions of decisions per second!
• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products
• Leverage and build cloud based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale
• 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 web, backend and data storage technologies and our system
• 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