CrowdStrike is looking for a Senior Software Developer, Backend to join their Detections Platform team to build and evolve cloud-based systems that provide security information to the endpoint agent in near-real-time, operating within tight latency and response time constraints at a massive and growing scale.
Requirements
- A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.)
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling back-end systems in production.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
- Experience with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, Python, and/or similar technologies.
- Prior experience with cloud services, such as AWS or Azure, particularly compute and storage offerings.
- Experience developing and deploying into Linux.
- Prior experience with containerization and container orchestration technology such as docker and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve cloud-based systems to detect and disrupt targeted attacks at a global scale.
- Brainstorm, design, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
- Build elegant and performant solutions for complex technical problems in Go.
- Read and critique code in the multiple programming languages in use in our environment (Go, Python, Unix shell, among others), and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members
- Focus on continual learning, raising the bar for both yourself and your teammates.
- Leverage our understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean.
- Collaborate on determining root causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future.
Other
- Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and when leading a team.
- Deliver and accept feedback with grace and courtesy.
- Crowdstrike is a remote-friendly company, but we do get together from time to time. Some travel will be required for in-person meetings.
- Team player skills – we embrace collaboration.
- Both a sense of humor and a sense of humility.
