Backend Automation & Development Engineer, CrowdStrike

• 6-8 years experience working within a large-scale production environment and developing/troubleshooting applications across functional teams
• Significant professional experience utilizing Go (Golang), Java, C# or C++ to build services and applications for automation, tooling, dashboards, alarms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A proactive, can-do attitude that excels at both working independently and collaborating as part of a team
• Demonstrated passion for learning new systems and methodologies combined with advanced troubleshooting skills and solid quality control habits
• Attention to detail and the ability to make good, timely decisions
• Proven success analyzing and optimizing backend technical performance
• Talent developing and integrating APIs using REST or GraphQL in SOA or microservices architecture
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and with creating and leveraging automated unit/acceptance tests
• Experience using container orchestration systems such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience designing schemas and improving SQL queries for an RDBMS such as Postgres, SQL Server, or MySQL
• A passion for documentation and a desire to constantly improve knowledge transfer across teams
• Fluency with debugging toolsets and leveraging log/event management tools such as Falcon LogScale (formerly Humio) or Splunk

Desirable

• CrowdStrike is looking for a talented Backend Engineer to join our growing Production Systems Automation & Development team
• As a backend engineer, you will be focused on the creation and refinement of software to enhance the automations that deploy and manage CrowdStrike’s cloud-based infrastructure
• This candidate will play a key role in architecting and implementing a stable, scalable and flexible production environment
• One focus of this position will be to ensure that the team delivers code that is tuned for the scalability and survivability necessary in CrowdStrike’s expanding cloud ecosystem
• Be an energetic self-starter with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables
• Work with internal peers and business partners to analyze requirements and craft elegant, robust, and reliable solutions to solve challenging technical problems. From concept to completion, our engineers are involved in every step!
• Collaborate with other engineers to review code and to share best practices. Help raise the technical IQ of the team by being passionate about learning, and sharing the newest technologies, trends and practices with others
• Take an active role to own your personal workload and tasks. You are empowered to set the pace and tell us what can be delivered (and when)
• Be vigilant about streamlining and simplifying both development and business processes to ensure minimal friction throughout our solutions
• Represent the development team as a technical leader both vertically and horizontally across workgroups