Sr. Software Engineer II - Cloud - Policy Management (Hybrid)
CrowdStrike1 day ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$160k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, technical strategy, technology roadmaps, mentorship, and delivery guidance for the Policy Management team.
- Build and evolve cloud-based systems that manage and distribute configuration information to millions of endpoints.
- Design and implement performant, scalable solutions for complex technical problems across multiple teams.
- Review and critique code and pull requests across multiple programming languages, including Go, Python, Unix shell, TypeScript, and C++.
- Apply engineering practices involving testing, code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns.
- Own deliverables, guide team members, and contribute to technical direction and continuous learning.
- Investigate production outage root causes and implement quality improvements to prevent recurrence.
- Travel occasionally for in-person meetings, approximately 1–3 times per year.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship or permanent residency and the ability to work solely from U.S. soil.
- Computer science background or equivalent experience in programming styles, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and related areas.
- At least 7 years of experience building and scaling complex, low-latency cloud-based backend systems in production.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, influencing, and engineering-team guidance skills.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
- Experience with some combination of Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies.
- Experience with cloud services such as AWS or GCP, particularly compute and storage offerings.
- Experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Experience developing and deploying into Linux containers.
- Preferred experience with configuration automation for large endpoint fleets, such as Microsoft Configuration Manager, Jamf Pro, or ChromeOS device management.
- Cybersecurity or intelligence experience is preferred.
- Ability to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint checks for government customer requirements.
Benefits
- Hybrid work requiring 2–3 days per week onsite at a posted location, with occasional travel of approximately 1–3 times per year.
- Base salary of $160,000–$260,000 per year, with bonus and equity eligibility.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays, plus paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities, employee networks, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.
- Health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSC++ElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxPythonRedisTypeScript
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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.