Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This senior cloud engineering role sits at the intersection of SaaS delivery and cloud security, where product value depends on continuously interpreting customer environments at scale. The focus on posture intelligence and risk evaluation reflects a mature SaaS pattern: turning heterogeneous cloud signals into actionable insights that can be consumed across a platform, rather than building a single point solution.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work maps closely to challenges that recur in large, multi-tenant products: high-volume data ingestion, ETL design, data modeling, and reliable service operation. Experience connecting multiple internal products via APIs and event streams is especially portable across SaaS organizations that rely on platform teams to unify telemetry, metrics, and customer context into shared services.
The role tends to suit engineers who enjoy systems thinking and cross-team collaboration, and who prefer problems where correctness, resilience, and observability matter as much as feature output. It is a strong match for someone who wants to deepen cloud-provider fluency while building backend foundations that other SaaS product areas depend on.
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. 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:
The Cloud Risk team at CrowdStrike Cloud Security is looking for a senior engineer to join our growing team working on a transformative initiative at CrowdStrike.
This role is centered on gathering customer’s resources and insights from various CrowdStrike cloud products, establishing connections between data sources, and handling large-scale data operations to run comprehensive evaluations and generate actionable posture intelligence.
What You'll Do:
You'll be responsible for processing vast amounts of customer data to create meaningful conclusions that help customers:
Discover misconfigurations, security risks, and compliance violations in cloud environments
Identify and prioritize security risk issues that require immediate attention
Gain valuable insights into their cloud resources and assets to enable faster, more effective investigations
Understand the potential risks associated with their assets and cloud environment
Make data-driven security decisions based on comprehensive analysis of their environment
What You'll Need:
6+ years experience in programming, Golang and Python are our preferred languages.
Knowledge on services with at least two Cloud providers out of Aws, Azure and GCP.
Experience developing and consuming RESTful API web services.
Experience interacting with major cloud providers, mainly Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as Azure and Google Cloud (GCP).
Understanding data structures and a key-value distributed caching solution, such as Redis.
Experience using RDBMS databases, and accompanying knowledge of SQL.
Experience with data modeling and Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) concepts.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. Proficiency with common algorithms, data structures, code whiteboarding.
Bonus Points:
Experience with analytical databases
Understanding data structures and various APIs, for full-text search of application logs and event data in Elasticsearch.
Experience with Cassandra, CQL, and its wide-column store database.
Experience using graph structures (ie. nodes, edges), graph data, and graph databases.
Experience using a message queue. Kafka is preferred.
Responsibilities include:
Develop ETL jobs to gather data from multiple sources and provide insights into various product areas
Building data warehouses where large amounts of metrics and data will be stored
Interacting with many product groups within the organization to collect key metrics via APIs, Kafka integrations or direct data access
Participation in configuring and receiving uptime alerts related to the services you control.
Keeping services up and running in a healthy state.
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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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