Sr. Backend Cloud Engineer - TDIR (Remote)

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the 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, and this traffic 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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both 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. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role

Are you passionate about building highly scalable microservices? Do you get excited about knowledge sharing and collaborative problem-solving? Are you driven to create secure, reliable systems that help protect organizations from cyber threats? We would love to hear from you. We're looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR) team. This team is responsible for building critical components of the Next-gen SIEM product. You'll be working with a team of dedicated engineers to develop and scale microservices that enable security analysts to be more effective at incident management, threat hunting, and response.

What You'll Do

• Develop Go-based microservices to support new and existing features which help detect cyber attacks, as well as RESTful APIs to support customer-focused workflows.
• Take end-to-end ownership, both individually and as part of a team, for delivery of projects of increasing complexity.
• Work closely with designers, product managers, and engineers across product groups to understand, design, and implement solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team via pair programming, code reviews, and one-on-one knowledge sharing.
• Challenge the status quo by continuously re-evaluating our features, infrastructure, and services for areas where we can improve architecture, user experience, performance, latency, or stability.
• Relentlessly pursue quality by following engineering best practices including: appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, monitoring, and resilient architecture patterns.
• Utilize Kafka for event-driven workflows, Redis for distributed caching, and Cassandra, ElasticSearch, or PostgreSQL for data storage.
• Provide monitoring and operational & customer support for production services owned by our team.

What You'll Need

• Computer science degree or commensurate experience.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, RESTful patterns, and multithreading concepts; knowledge of software development best practices and willingness to learn more.
• Proficiency building and scaling services in production using Go, Python, Java, or C#.
• Track record of leading projects and delivery on schedule.
• Passion for customer success and guides decisions with the end user in mind.
• Effective communication across functions and levels throughout the company.
• Initiative to pick up and fix issues as you find them, without waiting to be assigned.

Bonus Points

• Currently developing Go-based web services for scalable microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis, Grafana.
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working in cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
• Market leader in compensation and equity award