Sr. Software Engineer II - Cloud - Policy Management (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike•Sunnyvale, CA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Engineer II for its Policy Management team. The team builds and maintains cloud-side software and user interfaces that manage configuration and settings for Falcon endpoint agents and other products across the Falcon platform. Its systems distribute customer configuration changes to millions of endpoints, often within minutes. The role contributes to architectural decisions, technical strategy, technology roadmaps, implementation, and reliable scaling of these systems across the product line. The position provides technical leadership and guidance, mentors engineers, collaborates with cloud, front-end, endpoint, and other teams, and supports successful project delivery. It requires strong experience building low-latency, production cloud back-end systems and distributed systems. Prior cybersecurity industry experience is not required; CrowdStrike will provide security mentoring and training. Candidates should have a strong interest in the company’s mission and customer and product needs. This is a hybrid role requiring 2–3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations. The position requires U.S. citizenship or permanent residency and working solely from U.S. soil. Periodic additional background and fingerprint checks may be required in accordance with government customer requirements. Occasional travel is expected, approximately 1–3 times per year.

Requirements

U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and able to work solely from U.S. soil.
Computer science background or equivalent experience, including programming styles, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
At least 7 years of experience building and scaling complex, low-latency cloud-based back-end systems in production.
Technical leadership skills, including demonstrated ability to mentor, influence, and guide engineering teams.
Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
Experience with some of the following or similar technologies: Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, and Elastic Search.
Prior experience with cloud services such as AWS or GCP, particularly compute and storage offerings.
Proven experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.
Experience developing and deploying into Linux containers.
Strong interest in CrowdStrike’s mission and willingness to engage with product-team and customer needs.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing configuration automation for large endpoint fleets, such as Microsoft Configuration Manager, JAMF Pro, or ChromeOS device management.
Exposure to or experience with cybersecurity and intelligence.
A sense of humor and humility.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for the Policy Management team, including technical strategy, technology roadmaps, mentoring, and project delivery.
Build and evolve cloud-based systems that manage and distribute configuration information to millions of endpoints.
Collaborate with cloud, front-end, endpoint, and other teams to design and build solutions.
Develop elegant and performant solutions to complex technical problems.
Review and critique code and pull requests across the programming languages used in the environment, and provide technical guidance and feedback.
Apply engineering best practices, including appropriate testing, peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns.
Take ownership and accountability for individual and team deliverables.
Give and receive feedback constructively.
Help determine root causes of production outages and implement quality improvements to prevent future outages.
Travel occasionally for in-person meetings, approximately 1–3 times per year.