Sr. Engineer, Cloud - Provisioning Platform (Hybrid)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for managing the customer lifecycle and their product experience. Whenever a new customer onboards on the Falcon platform, getting them operational could mean initializing them in our customer stores, setting up required policies, setting up management groups for their machines, initializing data stores, enabling configuration for them in several different dependent services etc, our team manages the automation of  this orchestration to give our customers a seamless experience. As part of the team you will play a critical role in enhancing the existing flow and building the next generation provisioning systems.

This is a hybrid position open to candidates Sunnyvale, CA.

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.

• 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 an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.

• Use and give back to the open source community.

What You’ll Use:

• Go (Golang)

• Python

• AWS

• Kafka

• GIT

• Cassandra

• ElasticSearch

• Redis

• Postgres

• ZMQ

• Hadoop

• AWS Cloud

What You’ll Need:

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

• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.

• The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.

• Deep understanding of 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.

Bonus Points:

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.

• 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

Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale. You will help build a platform that scales to millions of events per second and Terabytes of data per day. If you want a job that  makes a difference in the world and operates at high scale, you’ve come to the right place

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards

• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs

• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge

• Paid parental and adoption leaves

• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role

• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections

• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities

• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

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