Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to stopping breaches with its advanced AI-native platform. The role involves leading backend engineering efforts on large-scale distributed systems and developing the cybersecurity platform with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products
- Leverage and build cloud-based systems in a micro-service driven environment
- 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
Skills
- 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 work 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
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes
- Authored and led successful open-source libraries and projects
- Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
- Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch
- Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields
Benefits
- 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
- Eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off
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