# Software Engineer III - Risk Platform (Hybrid, Sunnyvale)

Hiring organization: [CrowdStrike](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crowdstrike)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/565a7f0e-7bf4-4a13-8376-344bbe3de402

Listed on CrowdStrike's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA
- Salary: 120000 – 180000 USD per year

## Summary

Design and build the risk intelligence platform powering CrowdStrike's exposure management capabilities, architecting backend services that process massive security datasets and deliver AI-driven risk insights. This role suits experienced distributed systems engineers comfortable with Golang microservices, cloud infrastructure, and mentoring others in a mission-critical cybersecurity environment.

_Our summary, not CrowdStrike's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Docker, Elasticsearch, Graph Databases, Kubernetes, Machine Learning, Microservices, Microsoft Azure, PostgreSQL, Python, Redis, REST APIs

## Required

- 7+ years building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems processing high-volume data
- Advanced object-oriented programming with strong typing
- Microservices architecture and REST API design experience
- Cloud infrastructure knowledge with major providers
- Distributed systems fundamentals including concurrency and scalability patterns
- Message queue experience with Kafka
- SQL and distributed caching proficiency
- System troubleshooting expertise for complex architectures
- Software engineering best practices and testing strategies
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent professional experience
- Strong algorithms and data structures foundation

## Nice to have

- Machine learning or AI implementation experience
- Elasticsearch expertise
- Cassandra and wide-column database experience
- Graph database knowledge
- Cybersecurity industry background or certifications
- Docker and Kubernetes proficiency
- Open source contributions or technical community involvement

Apply on CrowdStrike's site: https://crowdstrike.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/crowdstrikecareers/job/USA---Sunnyvale-CA/Sr-Engineer---Risk-Platform--Hybrid--Sunnyvale-_R29175