​​#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About the Role:

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Engineer for our Cloud Security Product Group. We’re extending CrowdStrike’s mission of “stopping breaches” into the public cloud and cloud-native workloads.

CrowdStrike’s product offering will give customers the ability to monitor and track their cloud-native workloads as well as hardening and protecting them against attacks prior to deployment. This offering will help with defending against potential adversary activities involving cloud-native resources.

When coupled with Falcon, CrowdStrike’s endpoint security offering, our CSPG offering will provide a more comprehensive perspective on how the adversary is targeting key customer infrastructure. Our ultimate goal is to provide a single platform for securing the entire lifecycle of cloud workloads and cloud security posture.

What You'll Do:

• 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

• Work in a startup-like environment with a small fast-moving 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 given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment.

The technology stack you’ll use will include:

• Go (Golang)

• AWS/GCP/Azure/Kubernetes

• Kafka

• GIT

• Cassandra

• ElasticSearch

• Docker

• Redis

What You'll Need:

• Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)

• Understanding scalability and distributed systems i.e. sharding, partitioning, concurrency, etc

• Being a team player

• 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.

Bonus Points:

• Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)

• Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch...

• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards with option to participate in ESPP in eligible countries

• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements

• Physical and mental wellness programs 

• Paid parental leave, including adoption 

• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities

• Access to CrowdStrike University, LinkedIn Learning and Jhanna

• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

• Birthday time-off in your local country

• Work with people who are passionate in our mission and Great Place to Work certified across the globe