Software Engineer III - Cloud CAO (Remote, East Coast)

CrowdStrike, Inc. Full time R19823 About the Role:CrowdStrike is looking for a Cloud Software Engineer to join our growing CAO Engineering Team. Our new colleague will be responsible for building globally distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud ecosystems using Golang. Prior experience with Golang is not required, but will be helpful. CrowdStrike is a computer security company, but we do not require candidates for this role to have prior security industry experience. We will mentor and train in security topics as needed. We do expect a strong interest in CrowdStrike's mission and a willingness to engage with the needs of our product teams and customers.The Counter Adversary Operations {target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} (CAO) Team is a newly formed, first-of-its kind team that brings together CrowdStrike Falcon® Intelligence and the CrowdStrike® Falcon OverWatch™ threat hunting team to disrupt today's adversaries and ultimately raise their cost of doing business. Both threat hunting and intelligence operations are essential to detect, disrupt and stop today's adversaries. CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations will have the power of both --- along with the trillions of telemetry events from the AI-powered CrowdStrike Falcon® platform --- to quickly act and intensify its impact on adversary activity. CrowdStrike's deep adversary knowledge, expertise in pursuing and stopping threats, and visibility derived from the Falcon platform make us uniquely qualified to deliver the most effective method of stopping breaches and protecting customers.You can also take a closer look at some of the CAO projects here {target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}.What You'll Do:Work on and enrich backend microservices -- From researching areas of concern to implementing the final solutionLeverage existing Crowdstrike tool and services to build cloud-based systems to help detect targeted attacksBrainstorm, research, define, communicate, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teamsBe committed to learning and improving.Be aware of our customers and the difficulties they face and how we can support.Have a strong focus on Quality of Coding through Best Practices, Testing, Logging and Metrics.Work in a Collaborating & Agile environment with a small fast-moving teamBe given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environmentTech Stack:In-depth knowledge of all is not required, but the ability to ramp-up and learn is.Go (Golang)DockerKubernetesAWSRedis / S3 / EC2 / IAMKafkaGITCassandraElasticSearchWhat You'll Need:Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)At least 3 years of previous experience as a Software Engineer.Solid understanding of scalability and distributed systems core concepts i.e. sharding, partitioning, concurrency, etcBeing a team playerA good grasp of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.The ability to thrive in a test-driven, collaborative, and iterative programming environment.The skills to me