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CrowdStrike

Backend Engineer III - Cloud (Remote)

Posted 4 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
Mid level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
Mid level
As an Engineer III - Cloud at CrowdStrike, you will develop and deliver scalable back-end services for the Cloud Security Posture Management platform, collaborating with teams to improve user experience and security. You will utilize your experience with cloud providers, APIs, and containerization to enhance the platform and address cloud-scale security challenges.
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As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day. We have 3.44 PB of RAM deployed across our fleet of C* servers - and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate an inclusive culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

Falcon Cloud Security (FCS) is a key product area for CrowdStrike. We’re extending CrowdStrike’s mission of “stopping breaches” into the public cloud and cloud-native workloads. CrowdStrike’s FCS Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) offering provides visibility into your entire cloud infrastructure, continuous monitoring for misconfigurations, and proactive threat detection — allowing DevSecOps teams to fix issues faster and be more productive. As a member of the Falcon Cloud Security group, you will be part of a fast-paced team taking on cloud-scale challenges and raising the bar on Cloud Security Posture Management.

What You'll Do:

  • Collaborate with your teammates to design and deliver scalable back-end services that support and expand our industry leading CSPM platform.

  • Development of public-facing command-line shell utilities, some which interact with your web services.

  • Integration support and documentation for complimentary teams (ie. UX/UI, Sensors, etc.)

  • Participation in configuring and receiving uptime alerts related to the services you control.

  • Reflect thoughtfully to improve architecture, models, user experience, performance, and stability following successful rapid prototyping and fast-paced decision making.

  • Brainstorm and refine how customers use and apply the vast amounts of data we collect to automate cyber threat intelligence at global scale.

  • Ultimately, develop a platform to help secure the entire lifecycle of cloud workloads for CrowdStrike customers.

What You'll Need:

  • Experience programming in at least one object-oriented programming language, featuring strong types. We write code in Golang. Learn it on the job with us!

  • Experience working with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP

  • Experience developing and consuming RESTful API web services.

  • Experience interacting with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud provider APIs.

  • Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and using Docker containers in Kubernetes environments with Helm.

  • Experience using a message queue. We use Kafka. (e.g., defining messages, estimating message sizes and rates, monitoring lag)

  • Understanding data structures and commands for a key-value distributed caching solution, such as Redis.

  • Experience using RDBMS databases, and accompanying knowledge of SQL, such as Postgres.

  • Experience committing code to a version control system, such as Git, and browsing hosted repositories, like Bitbucket.

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. Proficiency with common algorithms, data structures, code whiteboarding.

Bonus Points:

  • Hands-on experience operating and developing solutions for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

  • Experience with application observability incl. Prometheus metrics, Splunk logging, Grafana dashboards, and PagerDuty alerts.

  • Understanding data structures and various APIs, for full-text search of application logs and event data in Elasticsearch.

  • Experience with Cassandra, CQL, and its wide-column store database.

  • Experience using graph structures (ie. nodes, edges), graph data, and graph databases.

  • Experience using Terraform, and maintaining infrastructure-as-code scripts in HCL (HashiCorp Language).

  • Prior industry experience or certification related to CNAPP, CSPM, or Cloud Security

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

  • Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

  • Market leader in compensation and equity awards

  • Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs

  • Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge

  • Paid parental and adoption leaves

  • Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role

  • Employee Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood groups and volunteer opportunities to build connections

  • Vibrant office culture with world class amenities

  • Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

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CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary range for this position in the U.S. is $110,000 - $180,000 per year + variable/incentive compensation + equity + benefits. A candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location.

Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:03-17-2025

Top Skills

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