Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud - Core Reliability Services

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to stopping breaches with their advanced AI-native platform. The Senior Software Engineer will join the Core Platform Team to enhance service reliability and scalability, contribute to architectural improvements, and lead initiatives in distributed systems.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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