- Location
- Bangalore, India
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Source
- Workday
Description
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 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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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:
You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for authentication and authorization. The Auth team is responsible for both internal (e.g. Service-to-service authorization, etc.) and external (e.g. user login, etc) authN and authZ. The team is a critical part of cloud, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups. The team builds and extends services that are capable of making 1+ trillion decisions per day!
Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale. You will help build a platform that scales to millions of events per second and Terabytes of data per day. 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 Do:
Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products
Leverage and build cloud based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale
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 web, backend and data storage technologies and our system
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 (Golang)
OAuth
AWS
Kafka
GIT
ElasticSearch
Redis
Postgres
AWS Cloud
gRPC
What You’ll Need:
Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
11+ years of backend development experience
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
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
Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Bonus Points:
Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects
Existing exposure to Go, AWS, GCP, SpiceDB/OpenFGA/Zanzibar, Kafka, Elasticsearch
Familiarity with SAML, OAuth, SSO, OIDC, JWT
Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields
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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
- 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 Networks, geographic neighborhood 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.
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