CrowdStrike, Inc.
Sr. Engineer - Cloud Backend (Hybrid) - Sunnyvale
USA - Sunnyvale, CA · Senior
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About the role
- This is a full stack backend engineering position on the Spotlight platform team.
- This role requires a strong focus on distributed systems, service reliability, scalability, and cloud architecture across AWS and GCP.
- This role also requires reasoning and judgment over large volumes of continuously changing data, at the scale CrowdStrike operates - work that conventional rule-based systems have only partially addressed.
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-throughput, low-latency backend services and APIs in Golang and Python
- Build and maintain Kafka-based event streaming pipelines for near-real-time vulnerability event processing
- Drive backend engineering and process automation across the platform
- Partner with security researchers and platform teams (Intel, EPP) to deliver integrated capabilities
- Own service reliability - performance profiling, incident response, and root cause analysis on time-sensitive production issues
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Requirements
- 8-12 years of backend engineering experience.
- Solid experience with Golang/Java in production systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (S3, SQS, and similar)
- Experience with Kafka or other event streaming platforms.
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of an organization
- Experience in cybersecurity - welcome, though not required
- Experience with Kubernetes and event-driven autoscaling (KEDA)
Skills
- Ready to join a mission that matters?
- Architect and operate cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP at scale (S3, SQS, Kubernetes/KEDA, and more)
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
Company info
- Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed - we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform.
- Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward.
- We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other.
- Build agentic capabilities into the product - systems that reason over real data, use tools, and produce explainable results customers can act on
- Design the guardrails and policies that make autonomous reasoning safe for enterprise customers
This listing is sourced directly from CrowdStrike, Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.