Sr. Engineer, Cloud (hybrid)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · New York, NY

Senior Engineer for CrowdStrike's Cloud Security Product Group, focusing on extending the company's AI-native cybersecurity platform into public cloud environments. The role involves leading backend engineering for cloud-native workload protection, threat detection, and automating cyber threat intelligence.

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. Work in a startup-like environment with a small fast-moving team
  5. Be mentored and mentor other developers on backend, and data storage technologies and our system

Skills

Required

  • Go (Golang)
  • AWS/GCP/Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • Cassandra
  • ElasticSearch
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • backend and systems programming (Go / Python / NodeJS / Java / C#)
  • Cloud internal deep knowledge (AWS / GCP / Azure)
  • design of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-based architectures for runtime systems at scale
  • Docker / Kubernetes or similar

Nice to have

  • Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
  • Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch...
  • Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence field
  • Experience with AI-powered developer tools

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of experience in backend and systems programming
  • Cloud internal deep knowledge (AWS / GCP / Azure)
  • Experience with the design of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-based architectures for runtime systems at scale
  • Experience with Docker / Kubernetes or similar