Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Cloud

• 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
• Champion new technologies and techniques while raising the technical IQ of the team
• Mentor and be mentored on web, backend, and data storage technologies
• Re-evaluate products to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability
• Own deliverables and remain accountable for results
• Contribute to the open source community
• Build and extend authentication and authorization services supporting the Falcon Platform
• Maintain operational ownership of services, including designing, implementing, and running them in production

Requirements

• Necessary criteria to obtain GovCloud Access, most typically citizenship or PR/GC status
• 8+ years of backend object-oriented development experience in production
• Experience with Golang, Java, Scala, Node.js, Python, or C# (.NET Core)
• Experience with authentication and authorization (AuthN and AuthZ)
• Experience with FGA (Fine-Grained Auth rules)
• Recent experience building high-scale event-driven microservices architecture handling at least 5M events/day
• Ability to scale backend systems using sharding, partitioning, and horizontal scaling
• Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Desire to ship code and experience operating code in production
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
• Deep understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies
• Team collaboration skills
• Thorough understanding of engineering best practices, testing paradigms, peer code reviews, and resilient architecture
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, iterative programming environment
• Ability to meet commitments on time and produce high-quality, unit-tested, code-reviewed software checked in regularly for continuous integration
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes
• Periodically pass additional background and fingerprint checks consistent with government customer requirements
• Bonus: experience with OpenFGA or Zanzibar
• Bonus: authored or led successful open source libraries and projects
• Bonus: contributions to the open source community
• Bonus: exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch
• Bonus: prior experience in cybersecurity or intelligence fields

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive backend object-oriented development experience, particularly in building high-scale event-driven microservices and cloud-based systems. Proficient in authentication and authorization mechanisms, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Backend Object-Oriented Development
• Microservices Architecture
• Authentication and Authorization
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud-Based Systems

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Golang
• Java
• Scala
• Node.js
• Python
• C# (.NET Core)
• Fine-Grained Auth Rules
• Multithreading
• Concurrency
• Parallel Processing

Soft Skills

• Team Collaboration
• Mentoring

Certifications & Qualifications

• GovCloud Access Eligibility

Industry Keywords

• Cybersecurity
• Threat Intelligence
• Open Source Contributions
• Engineering Best Practices
• Continuous Integration

Tools & Technologies

• AWS
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• Elasticsearch
• OpenFGA