Sr. Engineer - Cloud (Remote)

#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters - and this traffic is growing daily. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About the Role:

Falcon Cloud Security (FCS) is a key product area for CrowdStrike. We’re extending CrowdStrike’s mission of “stopping breaches” into the public cloud and cloud-native workloads. CrowdStrike’s FCS Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) offering provides visibility into your entire cloud infrastructure, continuous monitoring for misconfigurations, and proactive threat detection — allowing DevSecOps teams to fix issues faster and be more productive. As a member of the Falcon Horizon control plane group, you will part of a fast-paced team taking on cloud-scale challenges and raising the bar on Cloud Security Posture Management.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with your teammates to design and deliver scalable back-end services that support and expand our industry leading CSPM platform.
• Development of public-facing command-line shell utilities, some which interact with your web services.
• Integration support and documentation for complimentary teams (i.e. UX/UI, Sensors, etc.)
• Participation in configuring and receiving uptime alerts related to the services you control.
• Reflect thoughtfully to improve architecture, models, user experience, performance, and stability following successful rapid prototyping and fast-paced decision making.
• Brainstorm and refine how customers use and apply the vast amounts of data we collect to automate cyber threat intelligence at global scale.
• Ultimately, develop a platform to help secure the entire lifecycle of cloud workloads for CrowdStrike customers.

What You'll Need:

• Experience programming in at least one object-oriented programming language, featuring strong types. We write code in Golang. Learn it on the job with us!
• Experience developing and consuming RESTful API web services.
• Strong leadership experience driving design and architectural decisions for the team, taking into account best practices and tradeoffs.
• Experience working with cloud provider APIs and CLI tools for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform and Azure Templates.
• Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and using Docker containers in Kubernetes environments with Helm.
• Experience using a message queue. We use Kafka. (e.g., defining messages, estimating message sizes and rates, monitoring lag)
• Understanding data structures and commands for a key-value distributed caching solution, such as Redis.
• Experience using RDBMS databases, and accompanying knowledge of SQL, such as Postgres.
• Experience committing code to a version control system, such as Git, and browsing hosted repositories, like Bitbucket.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. Proficiency with common algorithms, data structures, code whiteboarding.

Bonus Points:

• Prior industry experience or certification related to CNAPP, CSPM or Cloud Security.
• Experience with application observability incl. Prometheus metrics, Splunk logging, Grafana dashboards, and PagerDuty alerts.
• Experience handling production challenges related to Postgres, Kubernetes, and Kafka.
• Understanding data structures and various APIs, for full-text search of application logs and event data in Elasticsearch.
• Experience with Cassandra, CQL, and its wide-column store database.
• Experience using graph structures (ie. nodes, edges), graph data, and graph databases.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards

• Competitive vacation