Sr. Software Engineer - Backend (Remote)
USA CA Remote
#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.
About the Role:
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)
AWS
Kafka
GIT
Cassandra
ElasticSearch
Redis
ZMQ
Python
What You'll Need:
Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
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.
Deep understand 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 …
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Tasks- Be mentored and mentor other developers
- Collaboration
- Mentor other developers
- Scale backend systems
- Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables
AWS Cassandra Cassandra clusters Cloud-native platform Collaboration COM Concurrency Continuous Integration Cybersecurity Cyber threat intelligence Data storage Distributed Systems ElasticSearch Engineering Git GitHub Go Golang Kafka Multi-threading Python Recruiting Redis Scala Scalability Sharding Systems Threat Intelligence User Experience
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