Engineer III - Backend, Falcon Cloud Security

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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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:

Falcon Cloud Security (FCS) is a key product area for CrowdStrike. We’re extending CrowdStrike’s mission of “stopping breaches” into the public cloud and cloud-native workloads. CrowdStrike’s FCS Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) offering provides visibility into your entire cloud infrastructure, continuous monitoring for misconfigurations, and proactive threat detection — allowing DevSecOps teams to fix issues faster and be more productive. As a member of the Falcon Horizon control plane group, you will be part of a fast-paced team taking on cloud-scale challenges and raising the bar on Cloud Security Posture Management.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop Go-based microservices to support new and existing features which help detect cyber attacks, as well as RESTful APIs to support and expand our industry leading CSPM platform.

• Take end-to-end ownership, both individually, and as part of a team, for the delivery of projects of increasing complexity.

• Relentlessly pursue quality by following engineering best practices including: Appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, monitoring, and resilient architecture patterns.

• Utilize Kafka for event-driven workflows; and Cassandra, ElasticSearch, or PostgreSQL for data storage.

• Provide on-call monitoring and operational & customer support for production services owned by our team.

• Reflect thoughtfully to improve architecture, models, user experience, performance, and stability following rapid prototyping and fast-paced decision making.

• Ultimately, develop a platform to help secure the entire lifecycle of cloud workloads for CrowdStrike customers.

What You’ll Need:

• U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident and work solely from U.S. soil

• Experience programming in at least one object-oriented programming language, featuring strong types. We write code in Golang. Learn it on the job with us!

• Experience developing and consuming RESTful API web services.

• Experience working with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform and Azure Templates.

• Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and using Docker containers in Kubernetes environments with Helm.

• Experience using a message queue. We use Kafka and SQS. (e.g., defining messages, estimating message sizes and rates, monitoring lag)

• Experience using RDBMS databases, and accompanying knowledge of SQL, such as Postgres.

• Strong debugging skills: ability to spot design flaws, race conditions and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. Proficiency with common algorithms, data structures, code whiteboarding.

Bonus Points:

• Prior industry experience or certification related to CNAPP, CSPM or Cloud Security.

• Experience with application observability incl. Prometheus metrics, Splunk logging, Grafana dashboards, and PagerDuty alerts.

• Experience handling production challenges related to Postgres, Kubernetes, and Kafka.

• Understanding data structures and various APIs, for full-text search of application logs and event data in Elasticsearch.

• Experience with Cassandra, CQL, and its wide-column store database.

• Experience using graph structures (ie. nodes, edges), graph data, and graph databases.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

• 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.

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