Cloud Engineer III, Exposure Management (Hybrid, Sunnyvale)
About The Position
This is a backend engineering position on CrowdStrike’s Spotlight platform team. The engineer will design, build, and operate cloud-native services and infrastructure powering endpoint vulnerability assessment capabilities at global scale, with an emphasis on distributed systems, reliability, scalability, and cloud architecture across AWS and GCP. The role involves reasoning and judgment over large volumes of continuously changing data. Agentic reasoning is treated as a core architectural element, requiring decisions about where reasoning is appropriate, when deterministic approaches are preferable, and how to operate either safely in production. Falcon Vulnerability Assessment is a scan-less endpoint vulnerability assessment solution that provides real-time, zero-impact assessments of endpoint security posture. The Falcon platform combines lightweight endpoint sensors that observe activity, recognize malicious behavior, and provide prevention and telemetry with cloud services that aggregate and correlate telemetry across customer environments and present prioritized threat summaries.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of backend engineering experience.
- Solid experience with Golang or Java in production systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including S3, SQS, or similar services.
- Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming platforms.
- Strong database skills with Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Redis, or similar distributed data stores.
- Hands-on use of frontier-model SDKs such as Anthropic or OpenAI, and AI-assisted development tools, with a realistic view of their capabilities and limits.
- Proven experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of an organization.
- Strong collaboration skills and experience working in a global team.
- Commitment to software quality through unit testing, code review, and continuous integration.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in cybersecurity.
- Experience with Kubernetes and event-driven autoscaling such as KEDA.
- Experience with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, or LogScale.
- Familiarity with security vulnerability management or cybersecurity platforms.
- Good understanding of Windows OS internals and the Windows API.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CDK.
- Prior experience with large-scale data acquisition or content pipeline systems.
- Experience with evaluation and observability tooling for agentic systems.
- Experience with RAG pipelines, vector stores, or retrieval-augmented agents.
- Experience with graph databases and complex data modeling.
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-throughput, low-latency backend services and APIs in Golang and Python.
- Architect and operate cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP at scale, including S3, SQS, Kubernetes, and KEDA.
- Build and maintain Kafka-based event-streaming pipelines for near-real-time vulnerability event processing.
- Drive backend engineering and process automation across the platform.
- Partner with security researchers and platform teams, including Intel and EPP, to deliver integrated capabilities.
- Own service reliability through performance profiling, incident response, and root-cause analysis for time-sensitive production issues.
- Continuously re-engineer systems to improve architecture, performance, and stability.
- Write high-quality, well-tested, production-ready code with a focus on observability and operability.
- Build agentic product capabilities that reason over real data, use tools, and produce explainable results customers can act on.
- Take AI capabilities from prototype to production, owning latency, cost, correctness, and evaluation.
- Design guardrails and policies that make autonomous reasoning safe for enterprise customers.
Benefits
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge.
- Paid parental and adoption leaves.
- Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role.
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections.
- Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities.
- Eligibility for bonuses and equity grants.
- Health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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