Sr. Backend Engineer - Charlotte AI (Hybrid, EST)
CrowdStrike24 hours ago
Base Salary
$140k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Advance and maintain backend microservices while addressing critical technical concerns.
- Build globally distributed, fault-tolerant, scalable cloud solutions for detecting and countering cyber threats.
- Innovate with large language models to develop and refine Charlotte AI capabilities.
- Construct and maintain data pipelines, perform data upkeep, and contribute to training and implementing custom LLMs.
- Collaborate across teams to define and implement solutions.
- Develop, test, deploy, monitor, and improve software with strong coding quality, testing, logging, metrics, and resilient architecture.
- Contribute to product architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and reliability.
- Mentor fellow engineers and support ongoing team learning.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or professional experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Experience with language models, data science, and data engineering.
- Prior experience with big data and microservices.
- Understanding of scalability and distributed systems, including sharding, partitioning, and concurrency.
- Strong understanding of engineering best practices, testing, peer code reviews, resilient architecture, and continuous integration.
- Ability to work in a test-driven, collaborative, iterative environment and deliver high-quality, regularly reviewed and tested software.
- Experience with Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, or Elasticsearch is a bonus.
- Cybersecurity or intelligence-field experience is a bonus.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $140,000-$215,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses and equity grants.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays, plus paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
- Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities.
- Hybrid work based out of Austin, Texas or New York, New York, with office visits twice weekly once the development center is established.
- Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401k, and paid time off.
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About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike builds the Falcon cloud-native security platform used by enterprises and governments to protect endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data with EDR, next-generation antivirus, threat intelligence, and managed threat hunting. Founded in 2011 and publicly traded on NASDAQ as CRWD, the company sells primarily by subscription and also provides incident response services; its systems ingest and analyze nearly 3 trillion security events per day across customer environments.