Sr. Backend Engineer (Go, AWS, Cassandra) - Counter Adversary Operations Team (Remote or Hybrid)

About the Role:

CrowdStrike is looking for a Sr. Cloud Software Engineer to join our growing CAO Engineering Team. Our new colleague will be responsible for building globally distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud ecosystems using Golang. Prior experience with Golang is not required, but will be helpful.

CrowdStrike is a computer security company, but we do not require candidates for this role to have prior security industry experience. We will mentor and train in security topics as needed. We do expect a strong interest in CrowdStrike's mission and a willingness to engage with the needs of our product teams and customers.

This role is open in Romania, remote or hybrid.

Interviewing process: Online

Meet us virtually: https://www.linkedin.com/company/crowdstrike/life/crowdstrikeromania/

The Counter Adversary Operations Product Group (CAO) develops first-of-their-kind threat intelligence and hunting modules designed to detect, disrupt and stop today’s sophisticated adversaries in their tracks. Both threat hunting and intelligence operations are essential to detect, disrupt and stop today’s adversaries. CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations will have the power of both — along with the trillions of telemetry events from the AI-powered CrowdStrike Falcon® platform — to quickly act and intensify its impact on adversary activity.

CrowdStrike’s deep adversary knowledge, expertise in pursuing and stopping threats, and visibility derived from the Falcon platform make us uniquely qualified to deliver the most effective method of stopping breaches and protecting customers.

By joining the Malware Analysis Platform team, you will be able to improve our product range for malware analysis and research like: sandbox detonation environment providing extensive analysis reports, advanced malware search engine or high volume scanner service returning real-time verdicts.

What You'll Do:

• Work on and enrich backend microservices – From researching areas of concern to implementing the final solution
• Leverage existing CrowdStrike tool and services to build cloud-based systems to help detect targeted attacks
• Brainstorm, research, define, communicate, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
• Be committed to learning and improving
• Be aware of our customers and the difficulties they face and how we can support
• Have a strong focus on Quality of Coding through Best Practices, Testing, Logging and Metrics
• Work in a Collaborating & Agile environment with a small fast-moving team
• Be prepared to mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system
• Be aware of our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability
• Be given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment

Tech Stack:

In-depth knowledge of all is not required, but the ability to ramp-up and learn is:

• Go (Golang)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Redis / S3 / EC2 / IAM
• Kafka
• GIT
• Cassandra
• ElasticSearch

What You'll Need:

• Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
• At least 5 years of previous experience as a Software Engineer
• Deep understanding of scalability and distributed systems core concepts i.e. sharding, partitioning, concurrency, etc
• Being a team player
• 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 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:

• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields

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