CrowdStrike
Sr. Engineer - Risk Platform (Hybrid, Sunnyvale)
USA - Sunnyvale, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$215kDetected 5 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewSQLPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchCassandraAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesRESTKafkaMachine LearningData EngineeringA/B TestingIncident Response
About the role
- As part of CrowdStrike's cutting-edge Falcon Exposure Management pillar, you'll be at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, elevating our industry-leading "stopping breaches" mission to unprecedented levels of sophistication and visibility.
- Your expertise will directly influence the cybersecurity landscape, protecting organizations from sophisticated threats while advancing the state of the art in exposure management.
- This role is hybrid in Sunnyvale, CA requiring 2-3 days in office.
Responsibilities
- Backend Architecture: Design and develop scalable backend services powering both internal and customer-facing web applications with focus on performance and reliability
- Developer Tools: Create intuitive command-line utilities and APIs that integrate seamlessly with our platform ecosystem
- Infrastructure Design: Architect supporting systems including databases, real-time data pipelines, and monitoring solutions
- Cross-team Collaboration: Partner with UX/UI, Sensors, and other teams to deliver integrated solutions with comprehensive documentation
- Operational Excellence: Configure advanced monitoring, alerting, and maintain high availability for production services
- Continuous Innovation: Drive architectural improvements, optimize performance, and enhance user experience through iterative refinement
- 8-10 years of production experience building, delivering, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems processing high-volume data
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Requirements
- Advanced programming expertise in object-oriented languages with strong typing (we primarily use Golang and Python-we'll help you master our stack!)
- Proven microservices experience with designing scalable REST APIs and distributed communication patterns
- Message queue proficiency, particularly Kafka (message design, throughput estimation, lag monitoring, and performance considerations)
- System troubleshooting expertise for complex distributed architectures with focus on performance and reliability
- Collaborative technical skills with ability to mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical decisions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent professional experience
Nice to have
- Elasticsearch expertise for full-text search of logs and event data
- Cassandra and CQL experience with wide-column databases
- Graph database knowledge and experience with graph structures (nodes, edges, relationships)
- Cybersecurity industry experience or relevant certifications
- Docker and Kubernetes experience
- Open source contributions or technical community involvement
- Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge with major providers (AWS preferred, plus Azure and GCP) for provisioning, monitoring, and optimization
- Database versatility across RDBMS/SQL (PostgreSQL preferred) and distributed caching solutions like Redis
Skills
- Ready to join a mission that matters?
- Architect supporting systems including databases, real-time data pipelines, and monitoring solutions
Compensation
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Benefits
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
- Paid parental and adoption leaves
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