CrowdStrike
Sr. Engineer Engineer – Cloud, Core API (Hybrid)
$140K–$215K
USA - Sunnyvale, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
- Visa sponsorship
- The posting states that CrowdStrike participates in the E-Verify program.
About the job
Build and scale cloud backend APIs and API Gateway systems for CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity platform.
What you'll do
- Lead backend engineering from prototypes through large-scale applications, building cloud systems for threat detection and cyber threat intelligence.
- Collaborate across teams, mentor developers, and improve architecture, performance, and stability.
- Develop systems designed to scale to millions of events per second and terabytes of data per day.
What they ask for
- Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, or distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing.
- Ability to scale backend systems using sharding, partitioning, and horizontal scaling.
- Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
Nice to have
- Authored or led successful open-source projects, or contributed to the open-source community.
- Prior cybersecurity or intelligence experience; exposure to Go, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, or Elasticsearch.
Pay
$140,000 - $215,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Go (Golang), Python, AWS, Kafka, GIT, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Redis
AI focus
Use AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.
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