Sr. Engineer Engineer - Cloud, Auth (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike • Sunnyvale, CA

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

Join CrowdStrike’s cloud backend team in the Platform product group, responsible for internal and external authentication and authorization. The team builds and extends critical services used across the cloud and works collaboratively with other product groups. Its services make more than one trillion decisions per day, supporting a platform that scales to millions of events per second and terabytes of data per day.

The role leads backend engineering efforts, from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products. It involves designing and building cloud-based systems, collaborating across teams, improving architecture and performance, and contributing to a culture of learning, mentorship, and responsible AI adoption. This is a hybrid role requiring two to three days per week onsite at one of the posted locations.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• 12+ years of backend development experience.
• Ability to scale backend systems using sharding, partitioning, and horizontal scaling.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Deep understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• Strong collaboration and team skills.
• Thorough understanding of engineering best practices, including testing, peer code reviews, and resilient architecture.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, and iterative programming environment.
• Ability to meet commitments and deliver high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Proven experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.
• Desire to ship code and see it running in production.

Nice To Haves

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.
• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, GCP, SpiceDB, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with SAML, OAuth, SSO, OIDC, and JWT.
• Prior experience in cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

Responsibilities

• 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 global scale.
• Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
• Learn and champion new technologies and techniques, sharing knowledge with the team.
• Mentor and receive mentorship on web, backend, and data storage technologies and systems.
• Continuously evaluate and improve product architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability.
• Take ownership of deliverables and be accountable for commitments.
• Use and contribute to the open source community.
• Build authentication and authorization services for internal and external use.

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.
• Health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.
• Eligibility for bonuses and equity grants.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior