Engineer III, Cloud - Authentication & Authorization (Hybrid)
CrowdStrike1 day ago
Base Salary
$120k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes through large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
- Build and extend cloud-based authentication and authorization systems that operate at extreme scale.
- Design systems capable of processing millions of events per second and terabytes of data per day.
- Collaborate with members of multiple product teams to define, build, and improve platform capabilities.
- Improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability.
- Mentor and learn from developers working with web, backend, and data storage technologies.
- Take ownership of deliverables, contribute to open-source projects, and promote technical innovation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- 6+ years of backend development experience.
- Ability to scale backend systems using sharding, partitioning, and horizontal scaling.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability challenges, multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing.
- Strong engineering practices including testing, code review, resilient architecture, unit testing, and continuous integration.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, test-driven, iterative programming environment.
- Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Preferred experience includes Go, AWS, GCP, SpiceDB, OpenFGA, Zanzibar, Kafka, Elasticsearch, SAML, OAuth, SSO, OIDC, JWT, cybersecurity, or intelligence fields.
- Authored or led successful open-source libraries or projects is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $120,000–$180,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, health insurance, 401k, and paid time off.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays, plus paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities, employee networks, neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 2–3 days per week onsite at one of the posted locations.
- Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities.
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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.