Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - Ingestion (hybrid)

CrowdStrike

Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Base: $140,000 - $215,000 py; bonus/equity: eligib...
Hybrid (2-3 days on-site)
Large scale distributed systems
High volume services
Cloud-delivered saas product
CrowdStrike is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer for their Ingestion team, focusing on backend development within a hybrid work model. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in backend software development, particularly with large-scale distributed systems and cloud environments

Job Summary

  • CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations with the world's most advanced AI-native platform.
  • Our Ingestion group manages all network communications event traffic between our security cloud and customer resources, processing almost 3 trillion events per day.
  • This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.

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CrowdStrike is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer for their Ingestion team, focusing on backend development within a hybrid work model. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in backend software development, particularly with large-scale distributed systems and cloud environments.

Salary

Base: $140,000 - $215,000 per year; Bonus/Equity: eligibility for bonuses, equity grants; Benefits: comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • large scale distributed systems
  • high volume services
  • cloud-delivered SaaS product
  • Golang
  • network connections and protocols
  • performance optimization
  • multi-tenant architecture
  • distributed systems and scalability challenges
  • concurrency and parallel processing
  • engineering best practices
  • test-driven, collaborative, iterative programming

Nice-to-have

  • proprietary Cloud Protocol design
  • web servers and load balancers
  • open source libraries and projects
  • contributions to open source community
  • Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch
  • cybersecurity or intelligence fields

Key Requirements

  • Over 7 years' experience in backend software development
  • Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience
  • Experience with at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Ability to scale backend systems (sharding, partitioning, horizontal scaling)
  • Ability to troubleshoot system failures across a pipeline of services
  • Team player skills
  • Ability to meet commitments on time and produce high quality software
  • Ability to brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively
  • Solid design and problem solving skills
  • Strong cross-group collaboration and interpersonal communication skills

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