Sr. Backend Engineer

Were 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:

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to be part of the GDI (Getting Data In) group under NG-SIEM with a focus on data ingestion at petabyte-scale. The group focuses on the data onboarding experience for NG-SIEM customers, ingesting several petabytes of data per day across multiple regions from 100+ 1st party and 3rd party data sources. 

Data Onboarding is the first  critical step for a customers journey into NG-SIEM and data volume directly correlates with our ability to detect and hunt threats effectively. Our platform is growing to include all  1st and 3rd party data-sources and needs to scale to support unlimited data ingestion and enable customers to ingest all data without any limits.

You will be driving our vision to achieve a frictionless onboarding experience across hundreds of different data sources, including leveraging AI to build autonomous agents that facilitate seamless data onboarding for our customers.

You will be leading key product initiatives that will require you to collaborate cross-team across other data platforms and product teams in CrowdStrike.

This role is open to candidates located in India, Bangalore.

What You'll Do:

• You will be joining the NGSIEM Data Onboarding Team responsible to develop our data onboarding experience and provide a frictionless experience onboarding data sources
• Work as part of a cross-functional team including UI, UX and Data Scientists
• Solve hard problems in distributed systems, including high availability, reliability, performance and cost optimizations
• Develop systems in Go & Scala
• Support globally available, multi-region systems in production
• Lead and participate in cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects

You'll Need:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple software products/systems/releases, preferably in a SaaS delivery model, across all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience in technical leadership leading Design & Implementation of features & capabilities that span multiple disciplines.
• Fluency in at least one programming language, preferably in Scala or Go.  Java, .Net or any other programming language can be considered.
• Can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities.
• Product focus mindset and strong ownership based on the mindset “we built it, we own it”
• Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when operating services that span many components across several geographical regions.
• Strong communication skills; working collaboratively and confidently with internal stakeholders.
• Strong experience in completing tasks for multiple projects simultaneously.
• Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues.
• Experience with transactional DB’s(MySQL, Postgres, ), Docker, K8s, Kafka, Aws SQS, or any other streaming technology

Bonus Points:

• Experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization
• Experience or interest in driving agentic-AI projects
• Experience with Commercial clouds (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Prior experience in Cybersecurity.