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Sr Software Engineer, Cloud - Vulnerability Management (Hybrid)

Sunnyvale, CA · full time · Senior

$140,000 – $215,000

Listed on CrowdStrike’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

CrowdStrike is seeking a senior backend engineer to build the risk intelligence platform that powers their exposure management suite. You'll architect microservices that process massive cybersecurity data streams using machine learning and AI, working primarily in Golang across distributed systems while mentoring junior engineers.

Our summary, not CrowdStrike’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

8-10 years building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
Object-oriented programming with strong typing
Microservices architecture and REST API design
Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
Distributed systems knowledge including concurrency and scalability patterns
Kafka message queue proficiency
Database experience with both RDBMS/SQL and distributed caching
System troubleshooting for complex distributed architectures
Testing strategies and code review practices
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent professional experience
Algorithms and data structures foundation

Nice to have

Machine learning or AI implementation experience
Elasticsearch expertise for log and event data search
Cassandra and wide-column database experience
Graph database knowledge
Cybersecurity industry experience or relevant certifications
Docker and Kubernetes experience
Open source contributions or technical community involvement