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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Software Engineer II - Cloud - Policy Management (Hybrid) - **Company:** CrowdStrike - **Location:** Richmond, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $160,000 - $260,000 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, C++ (Programming Language), Chrome OS, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Code Review, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), Unix Shell, Redis, Cloud Services, Linux Containers, TypeScript, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Casper Suite, Front End Software Development, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** November 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/23ddf24c-040e-4fff-af81-f2d3ee2b83b0 ## About the Role * U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident and work solely from U.S. soil. * A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.) * 7+ years of experience building and scaling complex, low-latency cloud-based back-end systems in production. * Technical leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to mentor, influence and guide engineering teams * Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges. * Experience with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, and/or similar technologies. You don't need all of these, but you need some. * Prior experience with cloud services, such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform, particularly compute and storage offerings. * Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes. * Experience developing and deploying into Linux containers. * Both a sense of humor and a sense of humility Bonus Points: * Prior experience managing configuration automation for large endpoint fleets (for example, Microsoft Configuration Manager, JAMF Pro, ChromeOS device management) * Exposure to/experience with cybersecurity and intelligence. ## Description As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed - we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We're 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're building a welcoming & flexible team that prizes collaboration over competition, one which provides opportunities to learn new skills, mentor junior and senior developers and contribute to the direction of both the team & the products for which we're responsible. This is a high trust environment where we allow team members to manage their own time, take holidays as they need it and reward them with competitive salaries and equity., * Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for the Policy Management team, driving end-to-end technical strategy, building technology roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and ensuring successful project delivery. * Build and evolve cloud-based systems to flawlessly manage and distribute configuration information to a fleet of millions of endpoints, collaborating with other cloud, front-end, and endpoint developers. * Brainstorm, design, and build collaboratively across multiple teams. * Build elegant and performant solutions for complex technical problems across our tech stack. * Read and critique code and pull requests in the multiple programming languages in use in our environment (including Go, Python, Unix shell, Typescript, C++, among others), and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members. * Focus on continual learning, raising the bar for both yourself and your teammates. * Leverage your understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean and our deployments are straightforward. * Be an energetic 'self-starter' with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and when leading a team. * Deliver and accept feedback with grace and kindness. * Collaborate on determining root causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future. * Occasionally travel for in-person meetings. Crowdstrike is a remote-friendly company, but we do get together from time to time. Expect to travel 1-3 times per year.