As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike 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 Crowd Strike 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 Crowd Striker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers 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:

As part of the Cloud Engineering Platform Data organization you will build globally distributed, fault-tolerant and highly-scalable cloud-based systems using microservices architecture. You will lay the foundation that will enable Crowd Strike to continue pushing the state of the art for security services. Many other teams will be leveraging the core pieces of infrastructure you help build to further enhance security products and make cyberspace a safer place.

You would be part of a team which is building a Global Query Engine ecosystem, a set of components that will enable internal and external partners to access and join data from multiple underlying stores. The technology is built in-house and powered by Cassandra, Elasticsearch/Open Search, Kafka, Kubernetes and Go.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our talented team of technology enthusiasts, learn and also contribute to one of the most revolutionary platforms in the cyber security space.… and don't worry if you don't know Go, we will teach you!

If you are a hands-on engineer who loves technical challenges and wants to operate at scale, apply & let's talk!

Do you love building cloud solutions and/or graph databases? And make them scale 100x? Let's have a talk!

• Interviewing Process:

Online

• Evaluation process:

we're looking for engineers with experience in developing scalable cloud solutions in any programming language.

What You'll Do:

• Be part of engineering efforts turning rapid prototypes into large-scale core services.

• Leverage and build cloud based services to support our top rated security intelligence platform.

• Keep petabytes of critical business data safe, secure, and available.

• 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 backend and data storage technologies.

• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.

• Be an energetic “self-starter” with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.

• Use and give back to the open source community.

You Will Use:

• Go

• Cassandra

• Kafka

• Elasticsearch / Open Search

• SQL

• Redis

• ZMQ

• AWS Cloud

What You’ll Need:

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).

• Very good understanding of Web services/APIs and experience with integrating disparate systems, multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies, distributed systems and scalability challenges.

• Team player skills - collaboration is key to building the best solutions.

• 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.

Bonus Points:

• Providing components or systems in a platform team to internal users.

• Experience with GraphQL APIs.

• Operating in complex multi-cloud environments.

• Understanding of data security principles and best practices.

Benefits of Working at Crowd Strike:

• 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

Crowd Strike 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.

Crowd Strike 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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