CrowdStrike · 15 hours ago
Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud - Core Reliability Services
USA - Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $215K/yr
7+ years expCrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity dedicated to stopping breaches with an advanced AI-native platform. The role involves developing and maintaining services for reliability and scalability, leading initiatives for architectural improvements, and providing technical leadership within a fast-expanding codebase.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCyber SecurityCloud Data ServicesCloud SecurityNetwork Security
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands
Extend and build new libraries for cross-cutting concerns that comprise/extend to the entirety of CrowdStrike's cloud platform, which consists of hundreds of libraries and services
Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability
Provide technical leadership and guidance for large-scale architectural changes and complex incident management
Lead initiatives around reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency in distributed systems
Design and implement automation tools to improve the reliability and efficiency of our infrastructure
Develop and enhancement monitoring services
Use and give back to the open source community
Evangelize best practices for building software, especially as pertains to Go
Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team
Drive strategic decisions and influence infrastructure and operational improvements across the organization
Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverable
Qualification
Required
7+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role
5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product, in one of the following object-oriented languages: Golang, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Node.js
Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
Expert-level knowledge of Golang
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 understand 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
Preferred
Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
Existing exposure to K8s
Existing exposure to AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc. Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields
Benefits
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
Company
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity technology firm that provides cloud-delivered protection for cloud workloads, identity, and data.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.24BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementAccel,General Atlantic,IVPAccel
2022-12-01Post Ipo Equity· $4.6M
2021-01-12Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2019-06-12IPO
Leadership Team
George Kurtz
President / CEO & Founder
Zeki Turedi
Field CTO Europe
Recent News
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