C
$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
A senior backend engineering role focused on building and scaling large distributed systems handling trillions of daily events in CrowdStrike's cloud platform. This suits experienced software engineers comfortable with microservices, cloud infrastructure and mentoring others while shipping production code at scale.
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What they ask for
Required
- Computer Science degree or equivalent experience with data structures, algorithms and distributed systems
- Scale backend systems through sharding, partitioning and horizontal scaling
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
- Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency and parallel processing
- Proven experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making and drive business outcomes
- Engineering best practices including testing, code reviews and resilient architecture
- Ship code regularly and thrive in test-driven, collaborative, iterative environment
Nice to have
- Led successful open-source libraries or projects
- Open-source contributions via GitHub, Stack Overflow or blogging
- Experience with Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka or OpenSearch
- Prior cybersecurity or intelligence field experience