Senior Software Engineer, CrowdStrike
Risk Platform
+ Equity Awards
AI-native cybersecurity platform
Open for applications
AI-native cybersecurity platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity Awards
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
- 8+ years of production experience building, delivering, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems processing high-volume data
- Advanced programming expertise in object-oriented languages with strong typing (Golang, Python, or similar)
- Proven microservices experience with designing scalable REST APIs and distributed communication patterns
- Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge with major providers (AWS preferred, plus Azure and GCP)
- Solid distributed systems understanding, including concurrency, parallel processing, and scalability patterns
- Message queue proficiency (Kafka or something similar)
- Database versatility across RDBMS/SQL, distributed data stores (like ElasticSearch or Cassandra) and distributed caching solutions like Redis
- System troubleshooting expertise for complex distributed architectures
- Engineering best practices experience, including testing strategies, code reviews, and resilient architecture design
- Collaborative technical skills with ability to mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical decisions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent professional experience
- Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and technical problem-solving
Desirable
- Practical experience with golang, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, SQL, Redis
- Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields
- Graph database knowledge and experience with graph structures (nodes, edges, relationships)
- Open source contributions or technical community involvement
- Docker and Kubernetes experience
- If you have some but not all of the qualifications, but bring a passion for cybersecurity, we’d like to talk!
What the job involves
- We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Falcon Exposure Management team at CrowdStrike
- As a key member of our team, you'll play a critical role in designing and building the foundational risk platform that powers our industry-leading cybersecurity solutions
- You'll work with cutting-edge technologies, including Golang, microservices architecture, and diverse database ecosystems, to deliver comprehensive visibility into risks, management features and prioritization workflows
- Our team is responsible for building and maintaining the Risk platform product within the Exposure management pillar, which offers a single pane of glass experience by aggregating all risks within an organization in a single place
- You'll work on a globally distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud ecosystem that supports integration of risk from Crowdstrike's internal providers as well as from 3rd party integrations
- As a technical leader, you'll drive end-to-end product delivery, architect scalable solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define priorities and scope
- Your expertise will directly influence the cybersecurity landscape, protecting organizations from sophisticated threats while advancing the state of the art in exposure management
- Backend Architecture and Development: Design and develop scalable backend services powering both internal and customer-facing web applications, with a focus on performance, reliability, and security
- Develop and maintain APIs, microservices, and data pipelines to support the growth of the platform
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize project requirements
- Cloud Infrastructure and Operations: Collaborate with the DevOps team to design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions using AWS, Azure, or GCP, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability
- Develop and maintain scripts and tools to automate deployment, monitoring, and maintenance tasks
- Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements
- Database Management and Data Engineering: Design and implement database solutions using RDBMS/SQL, NoSQL databases, and distributed caching solutions like Redis, ensuring data consistency, integrity, and performance
- Develop and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes to support data integration and analytics
- Ensure data security and compliance across different databases and data stores
- System Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization: Troubleshoot complex distributed architectures, identifying and resolving performance and reliability issues
- Develop and implement monitoring and logging solutions to improve system visibility and debugging capabilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize performance optimization opportunities
- Collaboration and Technical Leadership: Partner with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI, Sensors, and other teams, to deliver integrated solutions with comprehensive documentation
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, ensuring knowledge sharing and skill development within the team
- Collaborate with technical leaders to define technical vision and strategy
- Operational Excellence and Service Reliability: Configure advanced monitoring, alerting, and maintain high availability for production services, ensuring robust and healthy service operations
- Develop and implement incident response plans and procedures to minimize downtime and ensure high availability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize operational excellence initiatives
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).
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2018
$200m
SERIES E
Oct 2017
$25m
SERIES D
Total funding: $487.1m
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 HQ
Heritage District, Sunnyvale, CA
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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