Sr. Backend Engineer - Charlotte AI (Remote, EST)

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to stopping breaches with their advanced AI-native platform. The role of Sr. Backend Engineer involves building scalable cloud ecosystems and developing capabilities for the Charlotte AI product, while collaborating across teams and ensuring high-quality coding practices.

Responsibilities:

• Advance backend microservices, pinpointing and addressing critical concerns to implement effective solutions
• Employ established CrowdStrike tools and services to build cloud solutions for detecting and countering targeted cyber assaults
• Innovate with Large Language Models to develop and refine Charlotte AI's capabilities
• Construct and maintain data pipelines, engage in data upkeep, and contribute to the training and implementation of custom LLMs
• Collaborate across various teams to brainstorm, define, and devise solutions
• Commit to ongoing learning and self-improvement
• Stay attuned to our customers' challenges, always seeking ways to enhance support
• Emphasize top-tier coding quality by adhering to best practices, rigorous testing, and thorough logging and metrics
• Work within a collaborative and agile team environment
• Contribute to mentoring fellow engineers across a spectrum of technologies and also absorb knowledge from them
• Constantly explore ways to refine product architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and reliability
• Own your work with autonomy, end to end: develop, test, deploy and monitor your changes
• Thrive in an environment that highly values trust

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
• Experience with Language Models, Data Science, Data Engineering
• Prior work experience with big data and microservices
• Understanding scalability and distributed systems i.e. sharding, partitioning, concurrency, etc
• Being a team player
• 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 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
• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields