Sr. Software Engineer (Cloud) – Platform, Europe (Remote)

At CrowdStrike we’re on a mission - to stop breaches. Our groundbreaking technology, services delivery, and intelligence gathering together with our innovations in machine learning and behavioral-based detection, allow our customers to not only defend themselves, but do so in a future-proof manner. Because of that we’ve earned numerous honors and top rankings for our technology, organization and talent. Our culture was purpose-built to be remote first, and we offer flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives in a way that works for them. If you’re ready to work on unrivaled technology with a team that makes a difference every day, let’s talk.

About the Role

We're a remote-friendly company and the role is open to all candidates in UK, Romania, Germany, Holland, Italy full-time remote all the time not only during Covid-19.

As part of the Cloud Engineering Platform team you will build 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 helped build to further enhance security products and make cyberspace a safer place.

As a Cloud Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively to build scalable solutions from scratch. Along with other top engineers you will be involved in solution design and development (using Go).

Don't worry if you don't know Go, we will teach you!

Interviewing process: online

Do you love building cloud solutions and/or graph databases? And make them scale 100x?

Let's have a talk!

You will…

• Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale core services

• Leverage and build cloud based services to support our top rated security intelligence platform

• Keep petabytes of critical business data safe, secure, and available

• 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 backend and data storage technologies

• 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

You will use:

• Go

• Cassandra

• Kafka

• Elasticsearch

• SQL

• Redis

• ZMQ

• AWS Cloud

What You’ll Need:

• 5-7 years experience in building scalable cloud solutions using Go / Java / Python / Scala

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).

• The ability to scale backend systems - sharding, partitioning; scaling horizontally is second nature to you.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.

• Deep understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.

• Team player skills - collaboration is key to building the best solutions.

• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.

#LI-AR1

#LI-Remote

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Flexible work hours and remote friendly environment

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards

• Comprehensive health benefits

• Wellness programs

• Peer recognition

• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities

• Inclusive culture focused on people, customers and innovation

• Working with the latest technologies

• Open offices have stocked kitchens, coffee, soda and treats

• Regular team activities, including happy hours and community service events

We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

CrowdStrike is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.