Backend Engineer II (Remote)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed - we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

Join the engineering team that bridges the gap between our security products and our business, sales, finance, and even marketing operations. We build both external customer facing experiences for registration, onboarding, and usage reporting as well as provide internal systems & reports for everything from individual engineering teams to executive leadership.

You'll be responsible for helping the team collect and manage huge amounts of data, and distilling that data into easily digestible yet powerful and flexible reports that can help guide both the business and the customer to getting the most out of the partnership. We help reduce friction between sales teams and their customers, we provide clarity to finance on license compliance, and we seek out insights that help guide internal stakeholders and executives about product adoption and usage.

Bring your experience in distributed technologies, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at high scale. If this sounds like the challenge for you and you have the experience + technical skills that reflect your readiness, submit your resume and let's have a conversation.

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, document, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale services.
• Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Triage system issues and debug by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations.
• Mentor other engineers on web and backend engineers on use of our feature services.
• Constantly re-evaluate our products to improve architecture, testing coverage, knowledge models, user experience, performance, observability and stability.
• Partner with product teams in understanding their needs, work with PM to document the new requirements, and implement those new features within our feature services

• Go(Golang)
• Python
• GIT
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• OpenSearch
• Kubernetes
• Postgres
• Redis
• Cloud Service Providers (AWS, GCP, OCI)

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• The ability to scale backend systems - sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
• The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Team player skills - we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible.
• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.
• The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
• The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• And above all, enthusiasm and openness to learning and developing all those skills alongside your team mates

• Existing exposure to Go,AWS, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch.
• Experience working on security products.

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe