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Sr. Engineer Engineer - Cloud, Auth (Hybrid)

USA - Sunnyvale, CAFull-time$140k2026-10-12 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Senior backend engineer building cloud-based 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 (cloud auth)

Builds

Cloud-based authentication and authorization services for CrowdStrike products

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Go (Golang), distributed systems design, API and systems design, multi-threading and concurrency, sharding and horizontal scaling, OAuth, AWS, Kafka, Postgres, GraphQL

Preferred skills

Open source contributions, SAML, SSO, OIDC, JWT, SpiceDB, GCP, cybersecurity domain experience

Technologies

Go, AWS, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis, Postgres, GraphQL, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, JWT

Responsibilities

Lead backend engineering from prototypes to large-scale applications, build cloud systems for threat detection and intelligence automation, mentor developers on web/backend/data storage technologies, improve architecture and performance, utilize AI technologies to enhance workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC