Engineer III - Reliability (hybrid, Ind)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Bangalore, India

CrowdStrike is seeking an Engineer III - Reliability to join their team in Bangalore, India. This role focuses on building and maintaining services for their AI-native cybersecurity platform, ensuring reliability and scalability for massive data processing. The position involves developing microservices, enhancing monitoring, and contributing to the overall architecture and performance of large-scale distributed systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands.
  2. Develop and enhance monitoring services.
  3. Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
  4. Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team.
  5. Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of full-time experience developing microservices for a SaaS product
  • Go, Java, Scala, Kotlin, C++, Python, Node.js
  • Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
  • The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
  • Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
  • Proven ability to work effectively with both local and remote teams
  • Track record of making great decisions, particularly when it matters most
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • A combination of confidence and independence with the prudence to know when to ask for help from the rest of the team
  • A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
  • Existing exposure to Go, K8s, AWS / GCP, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch etc.
  • Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

What the JD emphasized

  • scale backend systems
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
  • Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies