Experienced Software Engineer - Reliability team

About the Role:
We’re building the next-generation infrastructure and security platform for CrowdStrike which include an application and service delivery platform, massively scalable distributed data storage and replication systems, and a cutting-edge search and distributed graph system. Help us scale
CrowdStrike’s infrastructure and products to handle massive growth in traffic and data as we
continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands.

• Develop and enhance monitoring services.

• 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.

• 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 Need:

• 7+ years of full-time experience developing microservices for a SaaS product, in one of the following languages: Go, Java, Scala, Kotlin, C++, Python, Node.js.

• 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.

• Proven ability to work effectively with both local and remote teams

• Track record of making great decisions, particularly when it matters most

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• A combination of confidence and independence with the prudence to know when to ask for help from the rest of the team

• 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, K8s, AWS / GCP, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch etc.

• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

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