Engineer III - Platform

2 Months ago • All levels • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

CrowdStrike's data platform team is looking for backend software engineers. They build large scalable tier-1 distributed systems and highly available APIs to support various CrowdStrike products. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale services, working on cross-team initiatives, and troubleshooting production issues. The platform handles millions of events per second and terabytes of data per day. The ideal candidate is experienced in backend microservices development, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
Must have:
  • Expert knowledge of backend languages: Go, Scala, Java, Node.js or Python.
  • The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
  • Thorough understanding of engineering best practices.
Good to have:
  • Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch.
  • Experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, API and systems design.
Perks:
  • Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
  • 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 Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood groups and volunteer opportunities to build connections
  • Vibrant office culture with world class amenities

Job Details

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. We have 3.44 PB of RAM deployed across our fleet of C* servers - 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:

We are CrowdStrike's data platform team. We build large scalable tier-1 distributed systems and highly available APIs. The shareable and reusable platform services support the needs of all CrowdStrike products such as Cloud Security, Next-Gen SIEM, Identity Protection, Endpoint Security and Charlotte AI. 

We’re looking for backend software engineers to build new platform backend capabilities to enable product launches and to handle massive growth in traffic as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products.

This role is for an experienced backend micro services developer adept with cloud engineering principles. Your passion and meticulous attention to performance, reliability and scalability will be key ingredients to your success here at CrowdStrike.

​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.

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.

  • Design, develop, document, test, deploy, operate and enhance large-scale, resilient and fault-tolerant services.

  • Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.

  • Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects.

  • Troubleshoot critical production issues during on-call rotations and implement solutions.

  • Triage system issues and debug by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations.

  • 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.

What You’ll Use:

  • Go (Golang)

  • Java8

  • Python

  • git

  • Cassandra

  • Kafka

  • OpenSearch

  • Postgres

  • Redis

  • AWS Cloud

What You’ll Need:

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

  • Expert knowledge of any of the following backend languages: Go, Scala, Java, Node.js or Python (We use Go)

  • 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.

  • 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 ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a broad pipeline of services.

  • 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:

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

  • 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.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

  • Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

  • 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 Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood 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.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

If you need assistance accessing or reviewing the information on this website or need help submitting an application for employment or requesting an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.

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About The Company

CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.


Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.


Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.


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