Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud Security - FCS Registration (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike • Uniondale, NY

18h • Hybrid

About The Position

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you. About the Role: Falcon Cloud Security (FCS) is a key product area for CrowdStrike. We’re extending CrowdStrike’s mission of “stopping breaches” into the public cloud and cloud-native workloads. CrowdStrike’s FCS Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) offering provides visibility into your entire cloud infrastructure, continuous monitoring for misconfigurations, and proactive threat detection — allowing DevSecOps teams to fix issues faster and be more productive. As a member of the Falcon Horizon control plane group, you will be part of a fast-paced team taking on cloud-scale challenges and raising the bar on Cloud Security Posture Management. This role is hybrid, on-site at one of the posted locations. Candidate should be comfortable visiting the office twice a week once the development center is established.

Requirements

• U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident and work solely from U.S. soil
• Experience programming in at least one object-oriented programming language, featuring strong types. We write code in Golang. Learn it on the job with us!
• Experience developing and consuming RESTful API web services.
• Experience working with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform and Azure Templates.
• Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and using Docker containers in Kubernetes environments with Helm.
• Experience using a message queue. We use Kafka and SQS. (e.g., defining messages, estimating message sizes and rates, monitoring lag)
• Experience using RDBMS databases, and accompanying knowledge of SQL, such as Postgres.
• Strong debugging skills: ability to spot design flaws, race conditions and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Proficiency with common algorithms, data structures, code whiteboarding.

Nice To Haves

• Prior industry experience or certification related to CNAPP, CSPM or Cloud Security.
• Experience with application observability incl. Prometheus metrics, Splunk logging, Grafana dashboards, and PagerDuty alerts.
• Experience handling production challenges related to Postgres, Kubernetes, and Kafka.
• Understanding data structures and various APIs, for full-text search of application logs and event data in Elasticsearch.
• Experience with Cassandra, CQL, and its wide-column store database.
• Experience using graph structures (ie. nodes, edges), graph data, and graph databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop Go-based microservices to support new and existing features which help detect cyber attacks, as well as RESTful APIs to support and expand our industry leading CSPM platform.
• Take end-to-end ownership, both individually, and as part of a team, for the delivery of projects of increasing complexity.
• Relentlessly pursue quality by following engineering best practices including: Appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, monitoring, and resilient architecture patterns.
• Utilize Kafka for event-driven workflows; and Cassandra, ElasticSearch, or PostgreSQL for data storage.
• Provide on-call monitoring and operational & customer support for production services owned by our team.
• Reflect thoughtfully to improve architecture, models, user experience, performance, and stability following rapid prototyping and fast-paced decision making.
• Ultimately, develop a platform to help secure the entire lifecycle of cloud workloads for CrowdStrike 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
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

What This Job Offers

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