Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - Ingestion (Hybrid)
Core
Design and build ultra-high volume backend services for CrowdStrike's Falcon Platform, managing network communications event traffic between the security cloud and customer resources.
Role type
Senior-to-Sr Staff backend ('Cloud') software engineer
Builds
Proprietary Cloud Protocol(s), high-volume distributed systems, and initial thread remediation layers
Domain
Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale distributed systems design, network protocols (TLS, connection balancing), performance optimization, multi-tenant architecture, cloud environment expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), system troubleshooting, concurrency and parallel processing, sharding and horizontal scaling
Preferred skills
Web servers and load balancers implementation, open source library authorship, Go/Scala/Cassandra/Kafka/Elasticsearch experience, cybersecurity or intelligence field background
Technologies
Golang, Kafka, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, TLS
Responsibilities
Design and build complex systems with high autonomy, collaborate with Falcon Sensor teams across platforms, optimize system performance, troubleshoot pipeline failures, ship production code, and define cloud protocols
Seniority
Senior-to-Sr Staff, hands-on IC with strategic initiative ownership
