Sr. Engineer Engineer - Cloud, Auth (Hybrid)

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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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: You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for authentication and authorization. The Auth team is responsible for both internal (e.g. Service-to-service authorization, etc.) and external (e.g. user login, etc) authN and authZ. The team is a critical part of cloud, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups. The team builds and extends services that are capable of making 1+ trillion decisions per day! Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale. You will help build a platform that scales to millions of events per second and Terabytes of data per day. If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at high scale, you've come to the right place. PLEASE NOTE: This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations. What You'll Do: Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products Leverage and build cloud based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale 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 web, backend and data storage technologies and our system 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 (Golang) OAuth AWS Kafka GIT ElasticSearch Redis Postgres GraphQL What You'll Need: Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems) 12+ years of backend development experience 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr CrowdStrike Inc.