Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits at the heart of a mature, cloud delivered security platform where reliability is a product feature, not an internal metric. The listing signals work on large scale, event driven distributed systems and shared platform components, the kind of SaaS foundation that many product teams depend on. For SaaS professionals, that combination of core services, observability, and multi cloud deployment points to a platform engineering remit with broad downstream impact.
From a career standpoint, the experience maps cleanly to common SaaS scaling problems: designing for resiliency under sustained traffic growth, reducing operational toil through automation, and setting service level objectives that align engineering work with customer facing outcomes. The emphasis on reusable libraries and cross cutting tooling is also strong preparation for staff level influence in SaaS organisations, where leverage comes from enabling many teams rather than owning a single feature area.
The role is best suited to engineers who prefer systems thinking over isolated application work, and who enjoy making architectural decisions that hold up under production pressure. It fits someone comfortable leading incident response and guiding large changes, while still staying close to code and pragmatic delivery in a service oriented environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. 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. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. 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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.
About the Role:
As a Senior(+) Engineer (Typically equivalent to Staff or Sr Staff titles in other companies), you'll join this Core Platform Team with bottom-up visibility and ownership with a fast-expanding codebase (aimed at AI-based Detection & Response) and a far-reaching edict for service resiliency, with several key feature additions and critical re-architecture initiatives underway: Deployment of core services to several new clouds, modularizing into reusable components, improvements to core libraries, frameworks, observability tooling (tracing, profiling, alerting, SLOs etc), and automation to reduce manual toil in all the above.
Recently this group introduced adaptive concurrency to our core kafka library which implements flow control to protect database performance. In terms of overarching goals, it builds and maintains the next-generation infrastructure and security platform for CrowdStrike which include an application and service delivery platform, massively scalable distributed data storage and replication systems, and a cutting-edge search and distributed graph system. Help us scale CrowdStrike’s infrastructure and products to handle massive growth in traffic and data as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products.
Crowdstrike Falcon is THE industry standard in cloud-native cyber security and threat hunting, processing Trillions of events/day. You’ll be positioned for optimal widespread impact with bottom-up ownership of our core codebase, driving architectural choices that affect every feature development team, providing shared architectural components to be leveraged throughout the Falcon Platform (things like Unified Search, Protobuf libraries and other shared-tier architectural components).
What You'll Do:
Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands
Extend and build new libraries for cross-cutting concerns that comprise/extend to the entirety of CrowdStrike's cloud platform, which consists of hundreds of libraries and services.
Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
Provide technical leadership and guidance for large-scale architectural changes and complex incident management.
Lead initiatives around reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency in distributed systems.
Design and implement automation tools to improve the reliability and efficiency of our infrastructure
Develop and enhancement monitoring services.
Use and give back to the open source community.
Evangelize best practices for building software, especially as pertains to Go.
Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team.
Drive strategic decisions and influence infrastructure and operational improvements across the organization.
Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverable.
What You'll Need:
7+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role
5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product, in one of the following object-oriented languages: Golang, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Node.js.
Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
Expert-level knowledge of Golang
The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production.
Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
Deep understand multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
Team player skills – we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible.
A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.
The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
Bonus Points:
Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
Existing exposure to K8s
Existing exposure to AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc. Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.
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This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.
Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
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
Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.
CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.
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CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $140,000 - $215,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.
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