Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - Ingestion (Hybrid)

About the role

The Ingestion group at CrowdStrike manages all network communications event traffic between our security cloud and customer resources. This involves working with large-scale distributed systems, handling high volumes of services, and dealing with network protocols such as TLS, balancing network connections, managing virtual sessions, distributing dynamic content, and managing data streams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build complex systems with high autonomy and comfort with ambiguity in specs, often serving as a guiding hand in designing proprietary Cloud Protocols.
• Collaborate closely with Falcon Sensor teams for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android platforms.
• Scale backend systems, including sharding, partitioning, and horizontal scaling.
• Troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a pipeline of services.
• Ship code and ensure high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Build collaboratively with members across multiple teams, demonstrating strong design and problem-solving skills.
• Utilize AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows, and improve efficiency.

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Over 7 years' experience in a full-time backend software development role.
• Solid experience building high-volume services and systems for a cloud-delivered SaaS product.
• Adequate grounding in the technology of at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• The ability to scale backend systems, troubleshoot failures, and manage a pipeline of services.
• A deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability challenges, multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• Team player skills, including collaboration and interpersonal communication with various roles.
• Experience with engineering best practices, including appropriate testing paradigms, code reviews, and resilient architecture.
• The ability to meet commitments on time and produce high-quality software.
• A passion for engineering excellence, quality, security, and performance.
• Industry experience in implementing web servers and load balancers, authoring and leading successful open-source libraries and projects, contributing to the open-source community, and existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch.
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, network protocols, performance optimization, open-source tools and libraries, and multi-tenant architecture.

Skills

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, network protocols, performance optimization, open-source tools and libraries, and multi-tenant architecture.

Benefits

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge.
• Paid parental and adoption leaves.
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role.
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections.
• Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities.
• Equal opportunity employer.