Backend Engineer III, Data Onboarding, NG-SIEM (Cybersecurity)

Location: New York, NY, United States; hybrid, requiring 2–3 days per week on-site.

Base salary: $120,000–$185,000 per year, plus potential bonuses, equity grants, and benefits.

Company

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

What you will do

• Build data-onboarding capabilities enabling customers to ingest petabyte-scale data at millions of events per second with sub-second latency.
• Develop backend systems in Go for NG-SIEM and support globally available, multi-region production environments.
• Solve distributed-systems challenges involving high availability, reliability, scalability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with UI, UX, data science, and other cross-functional partners.
• Lead and participate in cross-team platform initiatives and projects.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple software products, systems, or releases across the development lifecycle, preferably in a SaaS delivery model.
• Fluency in at least one programming language, preferably Go.
• Experience with large-scale distributed-system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization.
• Experience with streaming systems such as Apache Kafka, transaction databases, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, prioritization, and delivery skills across concurrent workstreams.
• Experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience or interest in agentic-AI projects.
• Experience with commercial clouds such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Prior cybersecurity experience.
• Experience mentoring or informally guiding engineers on technical design or code quality.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven, collaborative environment focused on responsible AI adoption, experimentation, innovation, and customer impact.
• Market-leading compensation and equity opportunities.
• Health and wellness programs, vacation and holidays, paid parental and adoption leave, and professional development opportunities.
• Employee networks, geographic groups, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.
• Periodic additional background and fingerprint checks may be required for government customer requirements.

Hiring process

• Employment requires passing any applicable additional background and fingerprint checks consistent with government customer requirements.
• CrowdStrike participates in the E-Verify program and provides applicant assistance and accommodation support upon request.