Senior Backend Engineer - Platform ( Remote, Germany)

​​#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About the Falcon Platform:

Falcon is the CrowdStrike platform purpose-built to stop breaches via a unified set of cloud-delivered technologies that prevent all types of attacks — including malware and much more.

CrowdStrike stores more than 15 petabytes of data in the cloud that it uses to make decisions about upward of 1 trillion security events a day. 

We're a remote-friendly company and the role is open to all candidates in Germany, Ireland and Romania.

Check out our presentation about Cloud Engineering: https://bit.ly/3IHmdNK

About the Role:

As part of the Cloud Engineering Platform Data organization you will build globally distributed, fault-tolerant and highly-scalable cloud-based systems using microservices architecture. You will lay 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 help build to further enhance security products and make cyberspace a safer place.

You would be part of a team which is building multiple components for the Data Platform: A Graph Database, a Cloud Scheduling System and a Cross Cloud Data Synchronization System.

The technology is built in-house and powered by Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and Go. 

This is an excellent opportunity to join our talented team of technology enthusiasts, learn and also contribute to one of the most revolutionary platforms in the cyber security space.

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

If you are a hands-on engineer who loves technical challenges and wants to operate at scale, apply & let's talk!

Interviewing process: online

Evaluation process: we're looking for engineers with experience in developing scalable cloud solutions in any programming language.

Do you love building Cloud Solutions and/or Graph Databases? And make them scale 100x?

Let's have a talk!

What You'll Do:

• Be part of engineering efforts turning rapid prototypes into 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.

What You'll Use:

• Go

• Cassandra

• Kafka

• Elasticsearch / OpenSearch

• Redis

• AWS Cloud

What You’ll Need:

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

• Very good understanding of:

  • web services / APIs and experience with integrating disparate systems

  • multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.

  • distributed systems and scalability challenges.

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

• The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.

• The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Bonus Points:

• Providing components or systems in a platform team to internal users.

• Experience with GraphQL APIs.

• Operating in complex multi-cloud environments.

• Understanding of data security principles and best practices.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards with option to participate in ESPP in eligible countries

• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements

• Physical and mental wellness programs 

• Paid parental leave, including adoption 

• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities

• Access to CrowdStrike University, LinkedIn Learning and Jhanna

• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

• Birthday time-off in your local country

• Work with people who are passionate in our mission and Great Place to Work certified across the globe