CrowdStrike
Sr Software Engineer, Cloud - Vulnerability Management (Hybrid)
$140K–$215K
USA - Sunnyvale, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 10-15 years of backend engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate backend services and AI-driven risk intelligence capabilities for CrowdStrike’s vulnerability and exposure management platform.
What you'll do
- Design and operate scalable backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and Kafka event pipelines for vulnerability processing.
- Own service reliability, production issue response, and ongoing improvements to architecture, performance, and stability.
- Build agentic product capabilities and take AI systems from prototype to production, including guardrails and evaluation.
What they ask for
- Solid production experience with Golang or Java.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on AWS experience and experience with Kafka or another event-streaming platform.
- Strong database skills and hands-on use of frontier-model SDKs and AI-assisted development tools.
Nice to have
- Cybersecurity experience, including familiarity with vulnerability management or cybersecurity platforms.
- Experience with Kubernetes/KEDA, agentic-system evaluation, RAG pipelines, or graph databases.
Pay
$140,000 - $215,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Golang, Python, AWS, GCP, S3, SQS, Kubernetes/KEDA, Kafka
AI focus
Build agentic systems that reason over real data, use tools, and produce explainable results; take AI capabilities into production and own latency, cost, correctness, evaluation, and safety guardrails.
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