Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Engineer, Cloud role sits at the intersection of SaaS platform engineering and cybersecurity, where product value is delivered through always on cloud services rather than packaged software. CrowdStrike’s description of internet scale event processing and a shared platform that spans multiple products signals a mature, multi product SaaS environment with heavy operational and reliability demands.
For a SaaS career, the work maps closely to the problems that recur in modern subscription platforms: building foundational services, designing for resilience, and evolving architectures while keeping customer facing systems dependable. Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, distributed data stores, and cloud primitives translates well across SaaS companies that run high volume workloads and need strong internal platforms to support multiple product surfaces.
This role tends to suit engineers who prefer backend depth over feature level application work, and who enjoy thinking in systems, tradeoffs, and long lived services. It also aligns with professionals who like collaborating across teams to define shared capabilities, and who take discipline in testing, code review, and operational readiness seriously. Candidates looking to grow into technical leadership through platform ownership and mentoring should find the scope relevant.
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 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 Team:
The CrowdStrike Detection Engine (CDE) team is building a powerful, next-generation platform designed to be a force multiplier for security teams. Our platform empowers customers who leverage multiple Falcon products to create and manage advanced, unified detections and content. This core platform capability is a strategic imperative for CrowdStrike, aiming to provide a competitive advantage that is difficult to replicate, ensuring our customers have unparalleled detection and response capabilities across the entire Falcon ecosystem.
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated backend engineers to join the CDE Platform team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and scaling the foundational services that orchestrate data, content, and execution logic across CrowdStrike’s products (e.g., NGSIEM, FCS, Endpoint). You will be a key driver in creating a highly performant, scalable, and resilient platform that processes internet-scale data streams and enables real-time detection generation.
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
Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team
Be mentored and mentor other developers on web, 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) or C++
AWS/GCP/Azure/Kubernetes
Kafka
GIT
Cassandra
Docker
Redis
What You'll Need:
Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
Understanding scalability and distributed systems i.e. sharding, partitioning, concurrency, etc
Being a team player
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.
Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Bonus Points:
Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
Existing exposure to Go or C++, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch...
Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence field
Experience in thinking about, designing, or implementing programming languages and/or compilers
Interesting hobbies
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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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