Hybrid Engineer III – Cloud – Asset Platform

at CrowdStrike

• Job title: Engineer III – Cloud – Asset 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, Cassandra, Cloud, Cyber Security, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Engineer III role developing and leading backend engineering for cloud-based systems at CrowdStrike. Collaborate across teams and innovate within the cybersecurity platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
• Leverage and build cloud-based systems in a micro-service driven environment.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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 work run in production.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Deep understanding 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 on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Authored and lead successful open-source libraries and projects.
• Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch.
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

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