Sr. Backend Cloud Engineer - Auth

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Bangalore, India

This role is for a Sr. Backend Cloud Engineer on the Auth team at CrowdStrike, focusing on authentication and authorization for both internal and external services. The team builds and extends services that handle over 1 trillion decisions per day, operating at a global scale within the cybersecurity domain. The role involves leading backend engineering efforts, leveraging cloud systems, and contributing to a platform that processes trillions of events daily.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products
  2. Leverage and build cloud based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale
  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. Be mentored and mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system

Skills

Required

  • Go (Golang)
  • OAuth
  • AWS
  • Kafka
  • GIT
  • ElasticSearch
  • Redis
  • Postgres
  • gRPC
  • Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience
  • 11+ years of backend development experience
  • Ability to scale backend systems
  • Understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
  • Understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies
  • Team player skills
  • Engineering best practices
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment
  • Ability to meet commitments on time and produce high quality software

Nice to have

  • Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects
  • Existing exposure to Go, AWS, GCP, SpiceDB/OpenFGA/Zanzibar, Kafka, Elasticsearch
  • Familiarity with SAML, OAuth, SSO, OIDC, JWT
  • Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields

What the JD emphasized

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