Backend Engineer, CrowdStrike

PSPM

CA$105-180k

+ Variable/Incentive Compensation + Equity

SQL
AWS
GCP
Python
Scala
Java
Kafka
Elasticsearch
Redis
Go
Node.js
Postgres
Cassandra
Azure
Slack
Zoom
REST API
Golang
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada
CrowdStrike

AI-native cybersecurity platform

Job no longer available

CrowdStrike

AI-native cybersecurity platform

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDeep TechSaaSCyber SecurityCloud Computing

Job no longer available

CA$105-180k

+ Variable/Incentive Compensation + Equity

SQL
AWS
GCP
Python
Scala
Java
Kafka
Elasticsearch
Redis
Go
Node.js
Postgres
Cassandra
Azure
Slack
Zoom
REST API
Golang
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDeep TechSaaSCyber SecurityCloud Computing

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

  • 4-8 years of experience building features with microservices for a SaaS product
  • Expertise in (one of) Golang, Java, Scala, Node.js OR Python (we use Go)
  • Experience building large scale platforms handing petabytes of data
  • Expertise and proven success designing owning services through their full life cycle (you build it, you own/run it)
  • Experience using a message queue. We use Kafka. (e.g., defining messages, estimating message sizes and rates, monitoring lag)
  • Understanding data structures and commands for a key-value distributed caching solution, such as Redis
  • Experience using RDBMS databases, and accompanying knowledge of SQL, such as Postgres
  • Experience troubleshooting highly distributed systems, including scalability concerns. (e.g, concurrency, immutability, sharding, eventual consistency, etc.)
  • Experience developing and consuming RESTful API web services
  • Experience interacting with major cloud provider APIs to provision cloud infrastructure, and to monitor it. We use Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud provider APIs the most, as well as Azure and Google Cloud (GCP)
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience. Proficiency with common algorithms, data structures, code whiteboarding

Desirable

  • Machine learning or data science experience
  • Understanding data structures and various APIs, for full-text search of application logs and event data in Elasticsearch
  • Experience with Cassandra, CQL, and its wide-column store database
  • Experience using graph structures (ie. nodes, edges), graph data, and graph databases
  • Prior industry experience or certification related to cybersecurity

What the job involves

  • Crowdstrike’s Proactive Security Posture Management (PSPM) is a brand new and key product area for CrowdStrike
  • We’re extending CrowdStrike’s mission of “stopping breaches” into the next level of sophistication and visibility by ingesting massive amounts of data and applying various techniques and algorithms (including Machine Learning) to provide unparalleled visibility and enable automation at an all new level in the industry
  • In this role, you will use the latest technologies for building backend services that will ingest data, perform complex calculations and provide remediation tooling and automation
  • You’ll work in Golang, building microservices, and use Kafka heavily too
  • We’re a highly collaborative, friendly, inclusive and diverse group that prizes collaboration over competition
  • We provide opportunities to learn new skills, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to the direction of both the team and the products for which we’re responsible
  • We work in a distributed, remote-first, high-trust environment where you manage your own time and have the flexibility to balance your work and personal life
  • Our ideal candidate will be responsible for taking full ownership of the delivery of our products, driving the technical aspects, helping the team to define the architecture and coordinating with stakeholders in terms of scope and priorities
  • As a remote employee, you connect to your co-workers mostly via Slack and Zoom
  • In this setting your ability to work unsupervised, communicate asynchronously, and take initiative in maintaining lines of communication is crucial
  • Development of back-end services hosting both private and public-facing web services
  • Development of public-facing command-line shell utilities, some which interact with your web services
  • Design of supporting infrastructure (databases, real-time data streams, etc.)
  • Integration support and documentation for complimentary teams (ie. UX/UI, Sensors, etc.)
  • Participation in configuring and receiving uptime alerts related to the services you control
  • Reflect thoughtfully to improve architecture, models, user experience, performance, and stability following successful rapid prototyping and fast-paced decision making
  • Brainstorm and refine how customers use and apply the vast amounts of data we collect to automate cyber threat intelligence at global scale
  • Keeping services up and running in a healthy state

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).

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Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

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: $478.9m

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 values

  • Automony
  • Flexibility
  • Trust

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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