Sr. Backend Engineer - Auth (IND, Hybrid)
Core
Senior backend engineer leading authentication and authorization services for CrowdStrike's AI-native cybersecurity platform, handling internal service-to-service auth and external user login at extreme scale.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (distributed systems & auth)
Builds
Cloud-based authentication and authorization services processing trillions of events daily
Domain
Cybersecurity / Distributed Systems / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Go (Golang), distributed systems design, API and systems design, sharding, horizontal scaling, multi-threading, concurrency, parallel processing, OAuth, AWS, Kafka, gRPC, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch
Preferred skills
Open source leadership, SpiceDB/OpenFGA/Zanzibar, SAML, SSO, OIDC, JWT, cybersecurity domain experience
Technologies
Go, AWS, Kafka, gRPC, ElasticSearch, Redis, Postgres, OAuth, gRPC
Responsibilities
Lead backend engineering from prototypes to large-scale applications, build cloud systems for threat intelligence automation, collaborate across product groups, mentor developers, improve architecture and performance, contribute to open source
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC