Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • $135,000 PA - $215,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior+ contributor, you will join the Core Platform Team with ownership of the codebase and focus on service resiliency. You will be involved in several key feature additions and re-architecture initiatives. This role involves developing and maintaining services to meet reliability and scalability demands, extending and building new libraries for the cloud platform, and constantly re-evaluating the product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability. The role also involves using and contributing to the open-source community, mentoring other developers, and championing new technologies. You will be working with a team and the job requires you to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of experience in a service-oriented backend developer role
  • 5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product.
  • Expert-level knowledge of Golang
  • Experience in scaling backend systems - sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
Good to have:
  • Contributions to the open source community
  • Existing exposure to Go, Java, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc.
  • Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.
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
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
  • Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

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:

As a Senior+ contributor, you'll join this Core Platform Team with bottom-up ownership of our codebase and a far-reaching edict for service resiliency, with several key feature additions and critical re-architecture initiatives underway (improvements to core libraries and platform services, observability tooling (tracing, profiling, alerting, SLOs etc), and automation to reduce manual toil).

 

Recently we introduced adaptive concurrency to our core kafka library which implements flow control to protect database performance and are presently making large-scale automations around how we build new clouds. In terms of overarching goals, 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.

 

Crowdstrike Falcon is THE industry standard in cloud-native cyber security and threat hunting, processing Trillions of events/day. You’ll be positioned for optimal widespread impact with  bottom-up ownership of our core codebase, driving architectural choices that affect every feature development team, providing shared architectural components to be leveraged throughout the Falcon Platform (things like Unified Search, Protobuf libraries and other shared-tier architectural components).

If you’re a math-brained or algorithmic thinker who loves optimization at its core, then we’ve got the role to put your strengths to work! Throwing you headfirst into our core codebase to push the capabilities of our platform and drive optimizations for the entire product’s architecture.

What You'll Do:

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

  • Develop and enhancement monitoring services.

  • 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.

  • Use and give back to the open source community.

  • Evangelize best practices for building software, especially as pertains to Go.

  • 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.

  • Mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system.

  • Update OSS dependencies as needed

  • Be mentored and mentor other developers on web security, authentication and authorization strategies.

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

What You'll Need:

  • United States Citizenship OR Permanent Residency is necessary to retain access to resources in AWS GovCloud (NO Clearance necessary)

  • 7+ years (Avg. Exp = 10-15 yrs) of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role

  • 5+ recent 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.

Bonus Points:

  • Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).

  • Existing exposure to Go, Java, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc.

  • Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

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This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.

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.

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Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:07-12-2025

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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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