Backend Engineer III (Hybrid, IND)

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

The Ingestion team within GDI (Get Data In) group is responsible to develop and maintain a multi petabyte ingestion platform for 3rd party data powering fast growing next generation SIEM. The platform is already handling over 1 PB of daily ingestion and looking forward to evolving the platform to handle more than 2 PB per day in the next 12-18 months while maintaining high availability, low latency and reasonable COGS.

As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to provide significant technical direction and produce a system that can support high throughput low latency data ingestion deployed across multiple regions. Your work will directly impact our ability to deliver fast, resilient, and scalable systems to support multiple petabyte data ingestion.

This role is targeting candidates located in Bangalore and willing to work in a hybrid environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and own the scoping, design, and development of major features and platform-level initiatives within the ingestion team to solve open-ended, complex distributed systems problems.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members through rigorous code reviews, design reviews, pairing, and documentation.
• Drive hands-on operational excellence by monitoring and following up on features released to customers and troubleshooting critical customer issues.
• Collaborate with your peers across teams on defining and delivering new solutions, design documents, technical talks and improving our internal documentation.
• We are a remote first company so you must bring your excellent verbal and written communication skills to bear when you are working with teams across the globe.

What You’ll Need:

• A passion or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity of how our running systems are doing.
• 7+ years experience in software development in general and the ability to juggle making pragmatic tradeoffs between short-time delivery needs vs long-term product goals.
• Experience in contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services
• Fluency in both functional and object oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go
• A can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities
• Demonstrated track record of operational excellence with complex distributed services
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical concepts crisply to individual contributors and management.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Points:

• Experience programming in Golang or Scala
• Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Hands-on experience architecting and optimizing massive-scale systems handling over 100s of billion requests per day or more than 1 PB of data per day.
• Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products

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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.

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