Senior Backend Engineer - Platform ( Remote, Germany)

<p>​​#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’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. 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.</p><p></p><p><b><span>About the Falcon Platform:</span></b></p><p><span>Falcon is the CrowdStrike platform purpose-built to stop breaches via a unified set of cloud-delivered technologies that prevent all types of attacks — including malware and much more.</span></p><p></p><p><span>CrowdStrike stores more than 15 petabytes of data in the cloud that it uses to make decisions about upward of 1 trillion security events a day. </span></p><p></p><p>We're a remote-friendly company and the role is open to all candidates in <b>Germany, Ireland and Romania.</b></p><p> </p><p><span>Check out our presentation about Cloud Engineering: </span><a href="https://bit.ly/3IHmdNK" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u><span>https://bit.ly/3IHmdNK</span></u></a></p><p></p><p><b><span>About the Role:</span></b></p><p><span>As part of the <b>Cloud Engineering Platform Data</b> organization you will build globally distributed, fault-tolerant and highly-scalable cloud-based systems using microservices architecture. You will lay the foundation that will enable CrowdStrike to continue pushing the state of the art for security services. Many other teams will be leveraging the core pieces of infrastructure you help build to further enhance security products and make cyberspace a safer place.</span></p><p></p><p><span>You would be part of a team which is building multiple components for the <b>Data Platform:</b> A Graph Database, a Cloud Scheduling System and a Cross Cloud Data Synchronization System. </span></p><p></p><p><span>The technology is built in-house and powered by Cassandra, <span>Elasticsearch/OpenSearch,</span> Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and Go. </span></p><p></p><p><span>This is an excellent opportunity to join our talented team of technology enthusiasts, learn and also contribute to one of the most revolutionary platforms in the cyber security space.</span></p><p></p><p><span>… and don't worry if you don't know Go, we will teach you!</span></p><p></p><p><span>If you are a hands-on engineer who loves technical challenges and wants to operate at scale, apply &amp; let's talk!</span></p><p></p><p>Interviewing process<span>: online</span></p><p></p><p>Evaluation process<span>: we're looking for engineers with experience in developing scalable cloud solutions in any programming language.</span></p><p></p><p><span>Do you love building Cloud Solutions and/or Graph Databases? And make them scale 100x?</span></p><p></p><p><span>Let's have a talk!</span></p><p></p><p><b><span>What You'll Do:</span></b></p><ul><li><p><span>Be part of engineering efforts turning rapid prototypes into large-scale core services.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Leverage and build cloud based services to support our top rated security intelligence platform.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Keep petabytes of critical business data safe, secure, and available.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies &amp; tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Be mentored and mentor other developers on backend and data storage technologies.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Be an energetic “self-starter” with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Use and give back to the open source community.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>What You'll Use<span>:</span></b></p><ul><li><p><span>Go</span></p></li><li><p><span>Cassandra</span></p></li><li><p><span>Kafka</span></p></li><li><p><span>Elasticsearch / OpenSearch</span></p></li><li><p><span>Redis</span></p></li><li><p><span>AWS Cloud</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>What You’ll Need<span>:</span></b></p><ul><li><p><span>Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data <span>structures/algorithms/distributed</span> systems).</span></p></li><li><p><span>Very good understanding of:</span></p><ul><li><p><s