Sr. Engineer, Backend - Ingestion (Remote) Ingénieur principal, back-end – Ingestion (à distance) - Military veterans preferred

2025-07-03
CrowdStrike, Inc.
Other

/yr

  employee   contract


Remote
Oregon
97458
United States

CrowdStrike, Inc.

Full time

R23202

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. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day. We have 3.44 PB of RAM deployed across our fleet of C* servers - and this traffic is growing daily. 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:

Our Ingestion group at CrowdStrike manages all network communications event traffic between our security cloud and customer resources. This means ultra-high volume services (all written in Golang) supported by Kafka, and plenty of work with network connections and protocols (etc. - negotiating TLS, balancing network connections, managing virtual sessions, distributing dynamic content, managing datastreams, and so on).


CrowdStrike is seeking a backend software engineer who wants to grow at scale, is comfortable with being technically stretched, and would like to positively impact our mission to stop breaches. Your experience working with large-scale distributed systems will be applied across a range of services.


What You'll Do:

As a Major Initiative Lead you will have high autonomy with high expectations, often serving as a guiding hand in designing things like proprietary Cloud Protocol(s), and working closely with Falcon Sensor teams for each of the platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android). Your details-oriented mindset and performance focus will allow CrowdStrike to scale into the future. Solid experience with large-scale distributed systems, network protocols, performance optimization, open source tools and libraries and multi-tenant architecture is highly desirable but not required.


If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at high-scale, you’ve come to the right place.


What You'll Need:
  • Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).

  • Over 7 years' experience in a full-time backend software development role

  • Ample experience building high volume services and systems for a cloud-delivered SaaS product

  • Solid grounding in the technology of at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)

  • The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.

  • The ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint system failures across a pipeline of services.

  • The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production.

  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.

  • Team player skills – we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible

  • A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.

  • 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.

  • Ability to brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.

  • Solid design and problem solving skills with demonstrated passion for engineering excellence, quality, security and performance

  • Strong cross-group collaboration and interpersonal communication skills working with a variety of roles; including engineering, product management, support and sales engineering


  • Bonus Points:
  • Industry experience in implementing web servers and load balancers

  • Authored and lead successful open source libraries and projects

  • Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)

  • Existing exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch…

  • Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields


  • propos de ce poste :


    L’quipe d’ingestion de CrowdStrike gre le traffic de toutes les communications rseau entre notre nuage de scurit et les ressources de nos clients. Cela comprend des services trs haut volume (tous crits en Golang) pris en charge par Kafka, et beaucoup de travail avec les connexions et protocoles rseau (c.--d. – gestion TLS, quilibrage des connexion rseau, gestion des sessions virtuelles, distribution de contenu dynamique, gestion des flux de donnes, etc.).


    CrowdStrike est la recherche d’un ingnieur logiciel back-end qui souhaite participer une volution grande chelle, qui est l’aise avec les contraintes techniques et qui souhaite avoir un impact positif sur notre lutte contre les brches. Votre exprience de travail avec des systmes distribus grande chelle sera applique une gamme de services.


    Ce que vous ferez :


    En tant que responsable d’une initiative majeure, vous bnficierez d’une grande autonomie accompagne d’attentes leves, servant souvent de guide dans la conception d’lments. tels que des protocoles infonuagiques propritaires. et travaillant en troite collaboration avec les quipes de Falcon Sensor pour chacune des plateformes (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android). Votre souci du dtail et l’accent que vous mettez sur les performances permettront CrowdStrike d’voluer. Une solide exprience des systmes distribus grande chelle, des protocoles rseau, de l’optimisation des performances, des outils et bibliothques code source ouvert, et de l’architecture locataires multiples est hautement souhaitable, mais pas obligatoire.


    Si vous voulez un emploi qui fait une diffrence dans le monde et qui opre grande chelle, vous tes au bon endroit.


    Ce dont vous aurez besoin :


  • Diplme en informatique (ou exprience quivalente en structures de donnes/algorithmes/systmes distribus).

  • Plus de 7 ans d’exprience dans un rle temps plein de dveloppement de logiciels back-end.

  • Vaste exprience dans la cration de services et de systmes volume lev pour un produit SaaS dans le nuage.

  • Solides connaissances de la technologie d’au moins un environnement infonuagique (AWS, Azure, GCP).

  • Capacit bien ancre de faire voluer les systmes back-end (fragmentation, partitionnement, mise l’chelle horizontale).

  • Capacit de dpanner et d’identifier les dfaillances du systme dans un pipeline de services.

  • Dsir de livrer du code et amour de voir ce que vous crez fonctionner en production.

  • Comprhension approfondie des systmes distribus et des dfis de l’volutivit, du traitement multifilire, de la concurrence et des technologies de traitement parallle.

  • Capacit de travailler en quipe. Le travail d’quipe est trs important pour nous.

  • Comprhension approfondie des meilleures pratiques d’ingnierie, des paradigmes de test appropris l’examen efficace du code par les pairs et l’architecture rsiliente.

  • Capacit s’panouir dans un environnement de programmation au rythme rapide, ax sur les tests, collaboratif et itratif.

  • Avoir les comptences ncessaires pour respecter ses engagements dans les dlais et produire des logiciels de haute qualit qui sont tests l’unit, dont le code est revu et qui font l’objet d’une vrification rgulire en vue d’une intgration continue.

  • Capacit de rflchir, de dfinir et de btir en collaboration avec les membres de plusieurs quipes.

  • Solides comptences en conception et en rsolution de problmes avec une passion dmontre pour l’excellence en ingnierie, la qualit, la scurit et la performance.

  • Solides comptences en matire de collaboration intergroupe et de communication interpersonnelle, travaillant conjointement avec une varit de rles, y compris l’ingnierie, la gestion de produits, le soutien et l’ingnierie des ventes.


  • Atouts :


  • Exprience dans l’industrie, incluant la mise en uvre de serveurs Web et de rpartiteurs de charge.

  • tre auteur et chef de file de bibliothques et de projets open source couronns de succs.

  • Contributions la communaut open source (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogues).

  • Familiarit avec Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch…

  • Exprience pralable dans le domaine de la cyberscurit ou du renseignement.


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    Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

    • Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

    • 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 Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood groups and volunteer opportunities to build connections

    • Vibrant office culture with world class amenities

    • Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

    CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

    CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

    If you need assistance accessing or reviewing the information on this website or need help submitting an application for employment or requesting an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.


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