Go Software Engineer (Sr.)

Job Description:
Crowdstrike Falcon is THE industry standard in cloud-native cyber security and threat hunting, processing Trillions of events/day. You’ll be positioned for optimal widespread impact with bottom-up ownership of our core codebase, driving architectural choices that affect every feature development team, providing shared architectural components to be leveraged throughout the Falcon Platform (things like Unified Search, Protobuf libraries and other shared-tier architectural components). If you’re a math-brained or algorithmic thinker who loves optimization at its core, then we’ve got the role to put your strengths to work! Throwing you headfirst into our core codebase to push the capabilities of our platform and drive optimizations for the entire product suite's architecture.
What You'll Do:

• Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands.
• Develop and enhance monitoring services.
• Extend and build new libraries for cross-cutting concerns that comprise/extend to the entirety of CrowdStrike's cloud platform, which consists of hundreds of libraries and services.
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
• Use and give back to the open source community.
• Evangelize best practices for building software, especially as pertains to Go.
• Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
• Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team.
• Mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system.
• Update OSS dependencies as needed
• Be mentored and mentor other developers on web security, authentication and authorization strategies.
• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.

What You'll Need:

• 8+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role
• 5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product
• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• Expert-level knowledge of Golang
• 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.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• Jenkins, Argo, Grafana, Graphite, Prometheus
• 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.