Cloud Engineer III, Exposure Management (Hybrid, Sunnyvale)
CrowdStrike1 day ago
Base Salary
$120k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-throughput, low-latency backend services and APIs in Go and Python.
- Architect and operate cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP, including S3, SQS, Kubernetes, and KEDA.
- Build and maintain Kafka-based event-streaming pipelines for near-real-time vulnerability processing.
- Drive backend engineering and process automation across the platform.
- Partner with security researchers and platform teams to deliver integrated capabilities.
- Own service reliability through performance profiling, incident response, root-cause analysis, observability, and operability improvements.
- Re-engineer systems to improve architecture, performance, and stability.
- Build agentic capabilities and take AI systems from prototype to production, including latency, cost, correctness, evaluation, and safety guardrails.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Production experience with Go or Java.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services such as S3 and SQS.
- Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming platforms.
- Strong database skills with Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Redis, or similar distributed data stores.
- Hands-on use of frontier-model SDKs such as Anthropic or OpenAI and AI-assisted development tools.
- Experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills in a global team.
- Commitment to software quality through testing, code review, and continuous integration.
- Cybersecurity, Kubernetes, KEDA, observability tooling, Windows internals/API, infrastructure as code, large-scale data acquisition, agentic-system evaluation, RAG pipelines, vector stores, or graph databases are preferred qualifications.
Benefits
- Market-leading compensation and equity awards, comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs, vacation and holidays, paid parental and adoption leave, professional development, employee networks, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.
- Hybrid role based in Sunnyvale.
- The position is eligible for bonuses, equity grants, health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKubernetesPythonRedisSplunkTerraform
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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.