Sr. Backend Engineer, Cloud Native - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) (Hybrid, Sunnyvale)
CrowdStrike7 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect enterprise-grade solutions scaling from thousands to millions of requests per second.
- Design and implement scalable microservices, frameworks, and cloud-native platform components.
- Build reusable platform libraries for multiple engineering teams.
- Develop comprehensive reliability, accuracy, and performance tests.
- Conduct code and design reviews focused on testability, security, and scalability.
- Integrate services and APIs with the CrowdStrike ecosystem.
- Perform root cause analysis for production issues and implement preventive improvements.
- Mentor team members on secure coding, testing, and cloud-native development practices.
Requirements
- Eligibility for CJIS clearance, requiring U.S. citizenship or Green Card/permanent resident status.
- 10+ years of software development experience building enterprise-grade products.
- 5+ years of experience developing microservices in cloud-native environments.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
- Expertise in at least one cloud-native programming language: Go, Python, or Java.
- Deep understanding of cloud architectures, microservices, REST, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, data storage systems, containers, and cloud orchestration.
- Experience deploying services to at least one cloud environment such as AWS, OCI, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong debugging skills for complex distributed systems and experience with cloud monitoring, profiling, and optimization tools.
- Preferred experience includes cybersecurity products, AI/ML security, real-time data processing, open-source contributions, OCI, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, AWS API Gateway, Golang, Microsoft Copilot Ecosystem, or Microsoft Agent Studio.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 2–3 days per week onsite at a posted location.
- Market-competitive compensation and equity awards.
- Physical and mental wellness programs, vacation, holidays, paid parental and adoption leave, and professional development opportunities.
- Employee networks, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.
- Health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureCSSDockerGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLgRPCHTMLJavaJavaScriptKubernetesOracle CloudPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisSplunk
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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.