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Sr. Engineer II - Auth & Provisioning (Remote)

USA CA Remote, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 May 2024

💰 $250,000/yr($150,000/yr – $250,000/yr)

About the role

#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:

You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for authentication and authorization. The Auth team is responsible for both internal (e.g. Service-to-service authorization, etc.) and external (e.g. user login, etc) authN and authZ. The team is a critical part of our flagship product group supporting the Falcon Platform, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups. The team builds and extends services that are capable of making millions of decisions per second!

What You’ll Do:

Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
Leverage and build cloud based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale.
Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team.
Be mentored and mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system.
Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
Use and give back to the open source community.

What You’ll Use:

Go (Golang)
OAuth
Python
AWS
Kafka
GIT
Cassandra
ElasticSearch
Redis
Postgres
ZMQ
AWS Cloud
GraphQL

What You’ll Need:

10+ years of backend object-oriented development experience in production, with any of: Golang, Java, Scala, Node.js, Python or C# (.NET Core).
Recent experience building high scale event driven microservices architecture (at least 10M events/day +)
The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production.
Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
Team player skills – we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible.
A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.
The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

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