About The Role:

Our Senior 1 title at CrowdStrike is often equivalent to Staff-to-Principal titles elsewhere in scope, impact and overall technical challenge. This role is for an experienced leader of major initiatives accustomed to owning their services/designs soup to nuts/end to end both in aspects of design through implementation, as well as in terms of operational ownership (i.e. "you build it, you run it"). 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 our flagship product group supporting the Falcon Platform, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups. The team builds and extends services that are capable of making millions of decisions per second (most recently benchmarked at 19 million TPS)!

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
• Python
• AWS
• Kafka
• GIT
• Cassandra
• ElasticSearch
• Redis
• Postgres
• ZMQ
• AWS Cloud
• GraphQL

What You’ll Need:

• Necessary criteria to obtain GovCloud Access: (most typically, either Citizenship or PR/GC status)
• 8+ years of backend object-oriented development experience in production, with any of: Golang, Java, Scala, Node.js, Python or C# (.NET Core).
• Experience with AuthN and AuthZ
• Experience with FGA (Fine-Grained Auth rules)
• Recent experience building high scale event driven microservices architecture (at least 5M events/day +)
• The ability to scale backend systems  sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in datastructures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• 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.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Fine Grained Access Control mechanisms like OpenFGA or Zanzibar
• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.
• Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
• Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch...
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• 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 Certified14 across the globe