Senior Security Engineer
RoSalary not specified
- Full Time
- Senior (5 to 8 years)
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
CybersecurityIndustries
Position Overview
- Location Type: Remote
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Salary: Not specified
- CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting organizations with its AI-native platform. The Ingestion group manages network communications event traffic between the security cloud and customer resources, processing almost 3 trillion events per day. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to contribute to scaling the platform and stopping breaches.
Requirements
- Education: Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
- Experience: Over 7 years’ experience in a full-time backend software development role.
- Cloud Experience: Solid grounding in the technology of at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Distributed Systems Knowledge: Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
- Troubleshooting Skills: Ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a pipeline of services.
- Collaboration Skills: Team player skills – ability to collaborate effectively within a team.
- Engineering Practices: Thorough understanding of engineering best practices, including testing paradigms, code reviews, and resilient architecture.
Responsibilities
- Major Initiative Lead: High autonomy with high expectations, often serving as a guiding hand in designing proprietary Cloud Protocol(s) and working closely with Falcon Sensor teams.
- System Design: Designing and building high-volume services and systems for a cloud-delivered SaaS product.
- Scalability: Ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature.
- Performance Optimization: Optimizing performance of backend systems.
- Code Delivery: Desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production.
- Collaboration: Brainstorming, defining, and building collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
- Code Quality: Writing unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
Application Instructions
- Not specified in the provided job description. Applicants should visit the CrowdStrike careers website for application details.
Company Information
- Company: CrowdStrike
- Industry: Cybersecurity
- Mission: To stop breaches and redefine modern security.
- Culture: Mission-driven, cultivates flexibility and autonomy, and encourages a fanatical commitment to customers, the community, and each other.
Skills
Data Structures
Algorithms
Distributed Systems
Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Multi-threading
Concurrency
Parallel Processing
Troubleshooting
System Design
Performance Optimization
Backend Development
Scalability
Code Review
Testing Paradigms
Resilient Architecture
Crowdstrike
Cloud-native endpoint security solutions provider
About Crowdstrike
CrowdStrike specializes in cybersecurity, focusing on protecting businesses from cyber threats through cloud-native endpoint security solutions. Their main product, the Falcon platform, includes services like Falcon Pro, which replaces traditional antivirus with next-generation antivirus that integrates threat intelligence, Falcon Insight for endpoint detection and response, and Falcon Device Control to manage connected devices. Unlike many competitors, CrowdStrike's services are subscription-based, allowing clients to choose different levels of protection based on their needs. The company serves a diverse clientele, including many Fortune 100 companies, and is recognized as a leader in the cybersecurity field, known for its effectiveness in threat detection and response.
Austin, TexasHeadquarters
2011Year Founded
$468MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Enterprise Software, CybersecurityIndustries
5,001-10,000Employees