Engineer III - Platform

About the Role:

We are CrowdStrikes data platform team. We build large scalable tier1 distributed systems and highly available APIs. The shareable and reusable platform services support the needs of all CrowdStrike products such as Cloud Security NextGen SIEM Identity Protection Endpoint Security and Charlotte AI.

Were looking for backend software engineers to build new platform backend capabilities to enable product launches and to handle massive growth in traffic as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products.

This role is for an experienced backend micro services developer adept with cloud engineering principles. Your passion and meticulous attention to performance reliability and scalability will be key ingredients to your success here at CrowdStrike.

You will help build a platform that scales to millions of events per second and Terabytes of data per day. If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at high scale youve come to the right place.

What Youll Do:

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to largescale applications across CrowdStrike products.

• Design develop document test deploy operate and enhance largescale resilient and faulttolerant services.

• Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.

• Work on crossteam platformlevel initiatives and projects.

• Troubleshoot critical production issues during oncall rotations and implement solutions.

• Triage system issues and debug by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations.

• Be mentored and mentor other developers on web backend and data storage technologies and our system.

• Constantly reevaluate our product to improve architecture knowledge models user experience performance and stability.

What Youll Use:

• Go (Golang)

• Java8

• Python

• git

• Cassandra

• Kafka

• OpenSearch

• Postgres

• Redis

• AWS Cloud

What Youll Need:

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).

• Expert knowledge of any of the following backend languages: Go Scala Java or Python (We use Go)

• 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.

• 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 testdriven collaborative and iterative programming environment.

• The ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a broad pipeline of services.

• 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:

• Existing exposure to Go Scala AWS Cassandra Kafka OpenSearch.

• 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.

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