CrowdStrike, Inc.
Sr. Engineer Engineer - Cloud, Auth (Hybrid)
USA - Sunnyvale, CA · Senior
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About the role
- You'll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for authentication and authorization.
- The Auth team is responsible for both internal (e.g. Service-to-service authorization, etc.) and external (e.g. user login, etc) authN and authZ.
- The team is a critical part of cloud, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups.
Responsibilities
- Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products
- Leverage and build cloud based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale
- Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
- 12+ years of backend development experience
- The ability to scale backend systems - sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you
- The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment
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
- Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team
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.
This listing is sourced directly from CrowdStrike, Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.