Sr. Engineer, Backend - Lightning (Hybrid)
Core
Building high-quality, scalable cloud-based backend systems that provide near-real-time security threat information to CrowdStrike's endpoint agents, processing trillions of events daily.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
Builds
Cloud services for the Falcon Lightning suite exposing sub-second APIs for threat data
Domain
Cybersecurity / Distributed Systems / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Python, distributed systems, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Linux, cloud services (AWS/Azure), low-latency system design
Preferred skills
Microservices architecture, containerization (Docker), endpoint software development, cybersecurity domain knowledge
Technologies
Go, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, AWS, Azure, Docker
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable cloud systems for threat detection; develop performant solutions in Go; conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance; collaborate on root cause analysis for production outages; mentor developers at all levels
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities