Hybrid Backend Engineer III, Global Serverless Platform

at CrowdStrike

• Job title: Backend Engineer III, Global Serverless Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $120,000 - $180,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cyber Security, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Kafka, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Engineer III for the NG-SIEM Global Serverless Platform team at CrowdStrike. Collaborating on scalable automation for the industry’s largest event data store.

Responsibilities

• Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues
• Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects
• Participate in scoping, designing and developing of new features and lead delivery of solutions to open-ended problems
• Contribute to moving the scalability of our LogScale engine to the next level
• Develop the control plane in Golang and extending the control plane capabilities to keep the scale with increasing scale of the platform while ensuring high availability
• Communicate technical decisions through design documents, technical talks and improving our internal documentation.
• Provide technical advice on decisions, and research and propose new technologies
• Collaborate within the team on delivery of new solutions and support team members through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance
• Monitor and followup on features released in our production environments
• Troubleshoot critical production issues

Requirements

• A passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity of how our running systems are doing
• Experience in software development in general and the ability to juggle making pragmatic tradeoffs between short-time delivery needs vs long-term product goals
• Experience in contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services
• Fluency in both functional and object oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go
• A can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities
• Bonus Points:
• Experience programming in Golang
• Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with Kafka
• Hands on experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization
• Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products

Benefits

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe