Sr. Software Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid in Austin, TX, USA; 2–3 days per week on-site at the Austin office

Base salary: $140,000–$220,000 per year for U.S. candidates, plus eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, and benefits.

Company

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company operating an AI-native platform that protects organizations and processes nearly 3 trillion events per day.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own core services and libraries for multi-cloud deployment and operation of LogScale fleets across AWS, GCP, OCI, and on-premises datacenters.
• Develop automation tooling, microservices, GitOps workflows, and DevSecOps practices for provisioning, upgrades, scaling, and configuration management.
• Build observability, tracing, profiling, alerting, and SLO frameworks for fleet health and reliability at scale.
• Architect capacity planning, workload forecasting, dynamic scaling, and version-upgrade systems that minimize customer impact.
• Design, deploy, and troubleshoot secure services in managed and self-managed Kubernetes environments, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit logging.
• Lead technical design, mentor engineers, collaborate with internal stakeholders, participate in global production on-call rotation, and continuously improve platform performance and reliability.

Requirements

• 7+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role; the average experience is 10–15 years.
• 5+ recent years developing microservices for a SaaS product using Go, Python, or a similar object-oriented/backend language.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, scalability, multithreading, concurrency, testing, code review, and resilient architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or OCI and the ability to learn additional cloud platforms.
• Experience designing production microservices, automation tooling, or infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
• Production experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience with configuration management or IaC tooling such as Chef, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, or Bitbucket; solid networking knowledge including VPCs, load balancers, and DNS.
• Understanding of security-first design, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit logging; proven mentoring, communication, cross-functional collaboration, end-to-end ownership, and rotational on-call availability.
• Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Expert-level Go; experience with AWS, GCP, OCI, and Azure.
• LogScale/Humio, Kafka, distributed streaming or log-management systems, data lake/lakehouse architectures, or data federation at scale.
• Kubernetes operators or Helm development; CKA, CKAD, or CKS certification.
• SRE practices, SLOs, error budgets, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Cloud certifications, FinOps or cost-optimization experience, open-source contributions, or effective use of AI coding assistants.
• Computer science degree or equivalent experience; cybersecurity or SIEM background.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, autonomous work culture with an AI-first approach to experimentation, innovation, and responsible AI adoption.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs, health insurance, competitive vacation and holidays, and paid parental and adoption leave.
• Bonuses, equity grants, professional development opportunities, employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
• Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities and a global Great Place to Work certification.
• Equal-opportunity workplace supporting veterans and individuals with disabilities.