Software Engineer III, Backend - Falcon (Remote, CAN)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Canada Remote
• Job Type: Full time
• Salary: Not specified

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches, and we have 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, with traffic that 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 are a mission-driven company that cultivates a culture giving every CrowdStriker the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We are 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. The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the role: You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group, responsible for authentication and authorization. The Auth team handles both internal (e.g., Service-to-service authorization) and external (e.g., user login) authentication and authorization. The team is critical to the cloud platform, frequently collaborating with many other product groups. The team builds and extends services capable of making over 1 trillion decisions per day!

What You’ll Do

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
• Leverage and build cloud-based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale.
• 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.
• 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.
• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Use and give back to the open-source community.

What You’ll Use

• Go (Golang)
• OAuth
• Python
• AWS
• Kafka
• GIT
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• Postgres
• AWS Cloud
• GraphQL

What You’ll Need

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• 4+ years of backend development experience.
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, and 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 understanding of 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

• Authored and led successful open-source libraries and projects.
• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, GCP, SpiceDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with SAML, OAuth, SSO, OIDC, JWT.
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale. You will help build a platform that scales to millions of events per second and Terabytes of data.