Sr. Engineer, Backend - Lightning (Hybrid)

About the role

The Lightning Team at CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Software Developer to build and evolve cloud-based systems that detect and disrupt targeted attacks at a global scale. This role involves building high-quality systems that scale cleanly and reliably, primarily in Go (and also some Python).

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve cloud-based systems to detect and disrupt targeted attacks at a global scale.
• Brainstorm, design, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
• Build elegant and performant solutions for complex technical problems in Go.
• Read and critique code in the multiple programming languages in use in our environment (Go, Python, Unix shell, among others), and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members.
• Focus on continual learning, raising the bar for both yourself and your teammates.
• Leverage our understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean.
• Deliver and accept feedback with grace and courtesy.
• Collaborate on determining root causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future.

Requirements

• A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.) with at least 5(+) years building backend systems in a SaaS, cloud platform or other SOA.
• 8+ years (Avg: 10-15+) of experience building and scaling back-end systems in production.
• Expertise in any of: Golang, Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala
• Strong experience in a cloud distributed systems stack: i.e. Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, and/or similar technologies.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Prior experience with cloud services, such as AWS or Azure, particularly compute and storage offerings.
• Team player skills – we embrace collaboration.
• Experience developing and deploying into Linux.

Bonus Points

• Prior experience with building, operating, validating, and scaling low-latency internet services.
• Experience with building and shipping cloud-connected endpoint software.
• Prior experience working within scalable microservices architectures.
• Prior experience with containerization and container orchestration technology such as docker and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to/experience with cybersecurity and intelligence.