CrowdStrike, Inc.
Sr. Engineer - Risk Platform (Hybrid)
USA - Redmond, WA · Senior
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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 or Redmond, WA 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
Nice to have
- 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
- Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge with major providers (AWS preferred, plus Azure and GCP) for provisioning, monitoring, and optimization
- Solid distributed systems understanding including concurrency, parallel processing, and scalability patterns (sharding, eventual consistency, caching strategies)
- Message queue proficiency, particularly Kafka (message design, throughput estimation, lag monitoring, and performance considerations)
- Database versatility across RDBMS/SQL (PostgreSQL preferred) and distributed caching solutions like Redis
- 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
Skills
- Ready to join a mission that matters?
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.
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