Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud EPP (Remote)

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Job description

At CrowdStrike we're on a mission - to stop breaches. Our groundbreaking technology, services delivery, and intelligence gathering together with our innovations in machine learning and behavioral-based detection, allow our customers to not only defend themselves, but do so in a future-proof manner. We've earned numerous honors and top rankings for our technology, organization and people - clearly confirming our industry leadership and our special culture driving it. We also offer flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives in a way that works for them. So if you're ready to work on unrivaled technology where your desire to be part of a collaborative team is met with a laser-focused mission to stop breaches and protect people globally, let's talk.About the Role:We're looking for a Cloud Software Engineer to join our growing Product team. You'll work closely with UI developers and multi-platform endpoint developers to build world class cybersecurity features, workflows, and solutions for the Falcon Platform. The Product development team is involved with the entire development organization and you'll collaborate with many teams across the company. You'll be building highly available services and systems, implemented primarily in Go (Golang), which scale cleanly and reliably to provide high-throughput APIs and data stream message processing. You'll be deploying your quality code to production frequently to the delight of our customers.We're a remote-first workplace and leverage team productivity tools like Slack, Zoom, and Confluence for day-to-day communication. Occasionally, travel for face-to-face meetings is the most effective way to collaborate when working on larger initiatives.If that sounds appealing, you can help us:Build elegant solutions using Go to support new and existing customer-focused features which help detect targeted cyber attacks and automate threat intelligence production at a global scale.Take end-to-end ownership and responsibility, both individually, and as part of a team, for projects of increasing complexity, including contributions to common or shared code bases.Brainstorm ideas, contribute to designs of systems, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams. Make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs.Review requirements and proactively identify gaps and technical limitations; communicate these issues early.Collaborate with UX and UI teams to author web service API contracts (REST, Swagger)Research, socialize, and contribute to maintenance and improvement of best practices for software development and web technologies within our group.Continuously re-evaluate our products and services to improve architecture, user experience, performance, latency, and stability. Use knowledge of use cases and product context to propose and execute improvements and optimizations.Relentlessly pursue quality by leveraging engineering best practices including: Appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, monitoring, and resilient architecture patterns.Review and update code written in Go, Scala, Python, shell script, and more.Key Qualifications:Computer science degree or commensurate experience (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.)4+ years of experience developing and supporting back-end services in production.Current experience with any of: Go, Scala, Python, Java, or C#Good understanding of software development best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architectures.Good understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing, web services, distributed systems, and scalability challenges.Track record of meeting commitments and delivering on schedule.Requires minimal direction and oversight. Takes initiative to fix issues before being assigned to them. Persistent when facing roadblocks, overcoming them efficiently and pulling in others when necessary.Able to communicate effectively across functions and throughout the organization.Thrives in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, and iterative environment.Obsesses about the user and guides decision-making with the user in mind.Gives and receives frequent feedback with grace and courtesy.Passionate about shipping code and seeing those bits run in production.Preferred Qualifications:5+ years of experience developing and supporting back-end services in production.Current exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis.Current exposure to containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.#LI-MC1#LI-RemoteBenefits of Working at CrowdStrike:Market leader in compensation and equity awardsCompetitive vacation policyComprehensive health benefitsFlexible work environmentWellness programsStocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treatsWe are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems so we strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.CrowdStrike is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.