Sr. Backend Engineer II (Remote)

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to stopping breaches with their AI-native platform. They are seeking a Sr. Backend Engineer II to build scalable backend capabilities for their products and handle significant growth in traffic.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects
• Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
• Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch