Sr. Software Engineer – Ingestion
| Company | Crowdstrike |
|---|---|
| Location | Austin, TX, USA, Kirkland, WA, USA, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
| Salary | $135000 – $215000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
- Over 7 years’ experience in a full-time backend software development role
- Ample experience building high volume services and systems for a cloud-delivered SaaS product
- Solid grounding in the technology of at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you
- The ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a pipeline of services
- The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, 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
- Ability to brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
- Solid design and problem solving skills with demonstrated passion for engineering excellence, quality, security and performance
- Strong cross-group collaboration and interpersonal communication skills working with a variety of roles; including engineering, product management, support and sales engineering
Responsibilities
- Serve as a guiding hand in designing proprietary Cloud Protocol(s)
- Work closely with Falcon Sensor teams for each of the platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android)
- Allow CrowdStrike to scale into the future with a details-oriented mindset and performance focus
Preferred Qualifications
- Industry experience in implementing web servers and load balancers
- Authored and lead 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