SRE Senior Engineer

About the Role:-

As a Senior+ contributor, you'll join this Core Platform Team with bottom-up ownership of our

codebase and a far-reaching edict for service resiliency, with several key feature additions and

critical re-architecture initiatives underway (improvements to core libraries and platform services,

observability tooling (tracing, profiling, alerting, SLOs etc), and automation to reduce manual toil).

Recently we introduced adaptive concurrency to our core kafka library which implements flow control

to protect database performance and are presently making large-scale automations around how we

build new clouds. In terms of overarching goals, we re building the next-generation infrastructure and

security platform for CrowdStrike which include an application and service delivery platform,

massively scalable distributed data storage and replication systems, and a cutting-edge search and

distributed graph system. Help us scale CrowdStrike s infrastructure and products to handle massive

growth in traffic and data as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products.

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:

United States Citizenship OR Permanent Residency is necessary to retain access to

resources in AWS GovCloud (NO Clearance necessary)

7+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role

5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product, in one of the following object-oriented

languages: Golang, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Node.js.

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.

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.

Bonus Points:

Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).

Existing exposure to Go, Java, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc.

Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.