Senior Software Engineer, CrowdStrike

• Solid experience with large-scale distributed systems, network protocols, performance optimization, open source tools and libraries and multi-tenant architecture is highly desirable but not required
• If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at high-scale, you’ve come to the right place
• 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

Desirable

• Our Ingestion group at CrowdStrike manages all network communications event traffic between our security cloud and customer resources
• This means ultra-high volume services (all written in Golang) supported by Kafka, and plenty of work with network connections and protocols (etc. - negotiating TLS, balancing network connections, managing virtual sessions, distributing dynamic content, managing datastreams, and so on)
• CrowdStrike is seeking a backend software engineer who wants to grow at scale, is comfortable with being technically stretched, and would like to positively impact our mission to stop breaches
• Your experience working with large-scale distributed systems will be applied across a range of services
• 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

• Expected Close Date of Job Posting is: 04-13-2025