Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
CrowdStrike’s Cloud Security Product Group sits at the intersection of two defining SaaS trends: security delivered as a platform and cloud-native infrastructure as the default runtime. The listing points to systems that operate at very high event volume and a product surface that extends protection into public cloud workloads, which places the work firmly in modern, multi-tenant SaaS architecture and operational realities.
For a SaaS engineering career, this kind of role builds durable leverage in areas that travel well across companies: designing distributed backends, working with event-driven components, and treating reliability and performance as product features. The stated stack and problem space also map to common platform patterns in SaaS, including Kubernetes-based deployment, streaming pipelines, and data stores chosen for scale and latency, alongside an explicit expectation to apply AI tooling in day-to-day engineering practice.
This position will suit senior engineers who prefer owning meaningful slices of backend systems and collaborating across teams to shape architecture over time. It is a strong match for professionals who enjoy turning ambiguous security and cloud requirements into production services, and who are comfortable balancing rapid iteration with long-term maintainability in a hybrid, office-linked setup.
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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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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:
CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Engineer for Cloud Security Product Group.
We’re extending CrowdStrike’s mission of “stopping breaches” into the public cloud and cloud-native workloads. CrowdStrike’s product offering will give customers the ability to monitor and track their cloud-native workloads as well as hardening and protecting them against attacks prior to deployment. This offering will help with defending against potential adversary activities involving cloud-native resources. When coupled with Falcon, CrowdStrike’s endpoint security offering, our CSPG offering will provide a more comprehensive perspective on how the adversary is targeting key customer infrastructure. Our ultimate goal is to provide a single platform for securing the entire lifecycle of cloud workloads and cloud security posture.
What You'll Do:
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
Work in a startup-like environment with a small fast-moving team
Be mentored and mentor other developers on backend, and data storage technologies and our system
Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability
Be given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment
The technology stack you’ll use will include:
Go (Golang)
AWS/GCP/Azure
Kubernetes
Kafka
Cassandra
ElasticSearch
Postgres
Redis
What You'll Need:
5+ years of experience in backend and systems programming (Go / Python / NodeJS / Java / C#)
Cloud internal deep knowledge (AWS / GCP / Azure)
Experience with the design of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-based architectures for runtime systems at scale
Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes
Experience with Docker / Kubernetes or similar
Ownership, Responsibility and professionalism
Ability to learn quickly and independently
Great interpersonal skills
Bonus Points:
Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch...
Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence field
Experience with AI-powered developer tools
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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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