What You'll Do:

• Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands.
• Develop and enhance monitoring services.
• Extend and build new libraries for cross-cutting concerns that comprise/extend to the entirety of CrowdStrike's cloud platform, which consists of hundreds of libraries and services.
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
• Use and give back to the open source community.
• Evangelize best practices for building software, especially as pertains to Go.
• 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.
• Mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system.
• Update OSS dependencies as needed
• Be mentored and mentor other developers on web security, authentication and authorization strategies.
• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.

What You'll Need:

• 8+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role
• 5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product
• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• Expert-level knowledge of Golang
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
• The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• Jenkins, Argo, Grafana, Graphite, Prometheus
• 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.

Bonus Points:

• Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
• Existing exposure to Java, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence