Backend Engineer III (hybrid, Ind)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Pune, India

Backend Engineer III role focused on petabyte-scale data ingestion for NG-SIEM, with a key initiative to leverage AI for building autonomous agents to facilitate seamless data onboarding. The role involves working on distributed systems, high availability, reliability, performance, and cost optimizations, with a focus on Go & Scala development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work on enabling petabyte-scale data ingestion at millions of events per second at sub-second latencies.
  2. Work as part of a cross-functional team including UI, UX and Data Scientists
  3. Solve hard problems in distributed systems, including high availability, reliability, performance and cost optimizations
  4. Develop systems in Go & Scala
  5. Support globally available, multi-region systems in production

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple software products/systems/releases, preferably in a SaaS delivery model, across all phases of the development lifecycle.
  • Fluency in at least one programming language, preferably in Scala or Go.
  • Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when operating services that span many components across several geographical regions.
  • Strong communication skills; working collaboratively and confidently with internal stakeholders.
  • Strong experience in completing tasks for multiple projects simultaneously.

Nice to have

  • Experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization
  • Experience or interest in driving agentic-AI projects
  • Experience with Commercial clouds (GCP, AWS or Azure)
  • Prior experience in Cybersecurity

What the JD emphasized

  • AI to build autonomous agents
  • frictionless onboarding experience
  • petabyte-scale data ingestion
  • millions of events per second
  • sub-second latencies
  • high availability
  • reliability
  • performance
  • cost optimizations

Other signals

  • AI-native platform
  • petabyte-scale data ingestion
  • AI to build autonomous agents
  • frictionless onboarding experience