Sr. Software Engineer II, Backend - Falcon (Remote)

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Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
• 12+ years of backend development experience
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you
• 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

Responsibilities:

• 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