Sr. Software Backend Engineer - Platform Data (hybrid, Rou)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Bucharest, Romania

CrowdStrike is seeking a Sr. Software Backend Engineer for their Platform Data team to build globally distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly-scalable cloud-based systems using microservices architecture. The role involves developing a Global Query Engine ecosystem using technologies like Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Go, processing trillions of events daily to enhance cybersecurity products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be part of engineering efforts turning rapid prototypes into large-scale core services.
  2. Leverage and build cloud based services to support our top rated security intelligence platform.
  3. Keep petabytes of critical business data safe, secure, and available.
  4. Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
  5. Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team.

Skills

Required

  • Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
  • Very good understanding of Web services/APIs and experience with integrating disparate systems, multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies, distributed systems and scalability challenges.
  • Team player skills - collaboration is key to building the best solutions.
  • 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

  • Providing components or systems in a platform team to internal users.
  • Experience with GraphQL APIs.
  • Operating in complex multi-cloud environments.
  • Understanding of data security principles and best practices.

What the JD emphasized

  • highly-scalable cloud-based systems
  • Global Query Engine ecosystem
  • Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, Kubernetes and Go