Sr Software Engineer, Cloud - Vulnerability Management (Hybrid)
CrowdStrike3 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-throughput, low-latency backend services and APIs using Golang 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, automation, architecture improvements, performance optimization, and platform stability.
- Partner with security researchers and platform teams to deliver integrated exposure-management capabilities.
- Own service reliability through performance profiling, incident response, root-cause analysis, observability, and operability improvements.
- Build agentic capabilities that reason over real data, use tools, and produce explainable customer-facing results.
- Take AI capabilities from prototype to production and manage latency, cost, correctness, evaluation, guardrails, and safety policies.
Requirements
- 10–15 years of backend engineering experience.
- Production experience with Golang or Java, with strong distributed-systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture knowledge.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including S3 and SQS.
- Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming platforms.
- Strong database experience 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 global, cross-functional environments.
- Commitment to software quality through unit testing, code review, and continuous integration.
- Cybersecurity, Kubernetes/KEDA, observability tooling, Windows internals/API, infrastructure-as-code, large-scale data acquisition, agentic evaluation, RAG, vector stores, or graph database experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity awards, with the stated U.S. base salary range of $140,000–$215,000 per year.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays.
- 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 arrangement requiring two to three days per week in the Sunnyvale, California office.
- Health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off are included in the U.S. benefits package.
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.