#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters - and this traffic is growing daily. We're looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.
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About the Role:
Our Fusion Product is on the hunt for a Senior-to-Principal (Level 7) backend software Engineer to build out platform products which provide our external users with core orchestration and workflow capabilities within their own environments, including (but not limited to) automated threat remediation.
Falcon Fusion - a core 'tier one' offering in our Flagship Platform, Falcon - is the Falcon product used by customers to automate breach remediations within their environments. It also serves as the runtime of apps build by our Foundry Module, and is 'dogfooded' by us internally to automate other workflows and speed up development. With these many varied uses, it can be responsible for processing anywhere from 500M to 10B+ events/day and is in use by essentially every single customer of the Falcon Platform.
This role is for an experienced backend microservices developer adept with cloud engineering principles. Your passion and meticulous attention to performance, reliability and scalability will be key ingredients to your success here at CrowdStrike.
What You'll Do:
- B uild highly fault tolerant Golang microservices to add features and functionality to our Fusion product and its supporting ecosystem
- Support ultra-high volume Kafka event pipelines managing our customer workflows
- Work with industry-leading technologies like Apache Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis and more
- Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects
- Troubleshoot critical production issues and implement solutions
- 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)
- Over 7 years' experience in a full-time backend software development role, especially building high volume services and systems for a cloud-delivered SaaS product
- Ample experience with NoSQL databases for a SaaS product
- Solid grounding in the technology of at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- The ability to scale backend systems - sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
- The ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a broad pipeline of services.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
- Proven expertise in building distributed systems, micro services, REST APIs
- Experience developing applications using SQL and No-SQL databases
- Contributed to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
- Master's degree in computer science or related field
- Golang experience
- Prior experience with cybersecurity
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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
- Remote-first culture
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
- Comprehensive and inclusive health benefits
- Physical and mental wellness programs
- Paid parental leave, including adoption
- A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities
- Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. If you need assistance accessing or reviewing the information on this website or need help submitting an application for employment or requesting an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.
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