Job Title: Sr. Backend Engineer II

Company Name: Crowdstrike

Job Url: https://crowdstrike.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/crowdstrikecareers/job/USA---Remote-NY/Principal-Engineer--Hybrid-_R23913?jr_id=69b32d37ae2a534885ea91d1

Job Description: We’re looking for a Sr. Backend Engineer II to build new platform backend capabilities to enable product launches and to handle massive growth in traffic as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products.

This role is for an experienced Sr. Backend Engineer II adept with cloud engineering principles. Your passion and meticulous attention to performance, reliability and scalability will be key ingredients to your success here at CrowdStrike.

This is a hybrid role based out of our office in NYC. Candidate should be comfortable visiting the office twice a week once the development center is established.

What You’ll Do:

Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.

Design, develop, document, test, deploy, operate and enhance large-scale, resilient and fault-tolerant services.

Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables. Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects.

Troubleshoot critical production issues during on-call rotations and implement solutions. Triage system issues and debug by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations.

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.

What You’ll Use:

Go (Golang)

Java8 

Python

git 

Cassandra 

Kafka 

OpenSearch 

Postgres 

Redis

AWS Cloud

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​What You’ll Need:

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

Expert knowledge of any of the following backend languages: Go, Scala, Java, Node.js or Python (We use Go)

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.

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