• Have no fear if you don't have prior experience with Golang; we value the desire to learn, the ability to write and ship high quality code, and the passion for seeing your solutions deployed in production
• CrowdStrike is a computer security company, but we do not require candidates for this role to have prior security industry experience
• We do however look for a strong interest in CrowdStrike's mission and a willingness to engage with the needs of our product teams and customers
• Being empathetic and a team player (Remember: One team. One fight!)
• Bring a positive attitude, a growth mindset and an eagerness to learn quickly and make steady progress
• A computer science degree or commensurate experience
• Good understanding of distributed systems, scalability, RESTful patterns, and multithreading concepts
• Experience building and scaling services in production using Go, Python, Java, C++ or C# or any modern OOP language
• Passion for customer success and guide decisions by always keeping the end-user in mind
• Willingness to take on ownership to fix issues as you find them, without waiting to be assigned

Desirable

• We are seeking a talented Cloud Software Engineer to join our growing Next-Gen SIEM team
• Help us revolutionize security management with our AI-native Falcon Next-Gen SIEM platform
• CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM helps revolutionize threat detection, investigation and response for our customers by enabling them to detect, investigate and hunt down threats 150x faster and at a petabyte scale within a unified platform to stop breaches
• You’ll be designing and developing a world-class threat detection engine in Golang which enables security analysts to be more effective and efficient at incident management, threat hunting, and response
• You’ll surface threats in their environments by detecting malicious activity within data across multiple security domains using advanced correlation and AI/ML tools
• We expect you'll be comfortable working with your awesome colleagues and partner teams who are distributed across various geographies & time zones
• We will mentor and train in security topics as needed
• Develop Go-based microservices to support new and existing features which help detect cyber attacks, as well as RESTful APIs to support customer-focused workflows
• Work on and enrich backend microservices – From researching areas of concern to implementing the final solution
• Work closely with designers, product managers, and engineers across product groups to understand, design, and implement solutions
• Challenge the status quo by continuously re-evaluating our features, infrastructure, and services for areas where we can improve architecture, user experience, performance, latency, or stability
• Relentlessly pursue quality by following engineering best practices including: Appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, monitoring, and resilient architecture patterns
• Utilize Kafka for event-driven workflows, Redis for distributed caching, and Cassandra, ElasticSearch, or PostgreSQL for data storage
• Provide monitoring and operational & customer support for production services owned by our team
• Be given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment