Senior Backend Engineer - Platform ( Remote, Germany)

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. We have 3.44 PB of RAM deployed across our fleet of C* servers - 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 an inclusive 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 Falcon Platform:

Falcon is the CrowdStrike platform purpose-built to stop breaches via a unified set of cloud-delivered technologies that prevent all types of attacks - including malware and much more.

CrowdStrike stores more than 15 petabytes of data in the cloud that it uses to make decisions about upward of 1 trillion security events a day.

We're a remote-friendly company and the role is open to all candidates in Germany, Ireland and Romania.

Check out our presentation about Cloud Engineering: https://bit.ly/3IHmdNK

About the Role:

As part of the Cloud Engineering Platform Data organization you will build globally distributed, fault-tolerant and highly-scalable cloud-based systems using microservices architecture. You will lay the foundation that will enable CrowdStrike to continue pushing the state of the art for security services. Many other teams will be leveraging the core pieces of infrastructure you help build to further enhance security products and make cyberspace a safer place.

You would be part of a team which is building multiple components for the Data Platform: A Graph Database, a Cloud Scheduling System and a Cross Cloud Data Synchronization System.

The technology is built in-house and powered by Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and Go.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our talented team of technology enthusiasts, learn and also contribute to one of the most revolutionary platforms in the cyber security space.

... and don't worry if you don't know Go, we will teach you!

If you are a hands-on engineer who loves technical challenges and wants to operate at scale, apply & let's talk!

Interviewing process : online

Evaluation process : we're looking for engineers with experience in developing scalable cloud solutions in any programming language.

Do you love building Cloud Solutions and/or Graph Databases? And make them scale 100x?

Let's have a talk!

What You'll Do:

• Be part of engineering efforts turning rapid prototypes into large-scale core services.
• Leverage and build cloud based services to support our top rated security intelligence platform.
• Keep petabytes of critical business data safe, secure, and available.
• 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.
• Be mentored and mentor other developers on backend and data storage technologies.
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
• Be an energetic "self-starter" with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Use and give back to the open source community.

What You'll Use :

• Go
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
• Redis
• AWS Cloud

What You'll Need :

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• Very good understanding of:
  • web services / APIs and experience with integrating disparate systems
  • multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
  • distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Team player skills - collaboration is key to building the best solutions.
• 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:

• Providing components or systems in a platform team to internal users.
• Experience with GraphQL APIs.
• Operating in complex multi-cloud environments.
• Understanding of data security principles and best practices.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• 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 Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood groups and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. Our approach to cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture is rooted in listening, learning and collective action. By embracing the diversity of our people, we achieve our best work and fuel innovation - generating the best possible outcomes for our customers and the communities they serve.

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