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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Backend Engineer (Hybrid, Redmond) - **Company:** CrowdStrike - **Location:** Redmond, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Data Structures, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Programming Environments, Redis, Backend, Git, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Software Coding, Golang - **Published:** June 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://crowdstrike.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/crowdstrikecareers/job/USA---Redmond-WA/Sr-Backend-Engineer--Hybrid--Austin-_R28425 ## About the Role * Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems). * The ability to scale backend systems - sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you. * The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production. * Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges. * Team player skills - we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible. * A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture. * The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment. * The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration. Bonus Points: * Existing exposure to Go,AWS, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch. * Experience working on security products. #LI-IL1 ## 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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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 are building the next generation of our UI foundation for CrowdStrike's platform called Kestrel which includes new UI and backend features to help customers 'Stop the Breach' by unifying data across security domains, streamlining access to the most important security information, and allowing users to more effectively personalize their user experience by role. You will play a key role in innovating, building and maintaining critical backend features in support of the Kestrel platform. Bring your experience in distributed technologies, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at high scale. Your work will enable hundreds of our UI engineers spread across dozens of feature teams to build the experience customers need to keep pace with and respond to adversaries by leveraging the power of the CrowdStrike platform in the most effective manner for their respective teams. You will be working with multiple backend teams, core service teams, and UI + backend feature teams to bring this new feature to life. If this sounds like the challenge for you and you have the experience + technical skills that reflect your readiness, submit your resume and let's have a conversation. This is a hybrid role based out of our offices in Redmond, WA. What You'll Do: * Design, develop, document, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale services. * Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables. * Triage system issues and debug by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations. * Mentor other engineers on web and backend engineers on use of our feature services. * Constantly re-evaluate our products to improve architecture, testing coverage, knowledge models, user experience, performance, observability and stability. * Partner with product teams in understanding their needs, work with PM to document the new requirements, and implement those new features within our feature services What You'll Use: * Go (Golang) * Python * GIT * Cassandra * Kafka * OpenSearch * Kubernetes * Postgres * Redis * AWS Cloud ## Related Videos - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Git for Code Reviews](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/429-git-for-code-reviews) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Dev Digest 131 - AI'm not sure about OSS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/472-dev-digest-131-ai-m-not-sure-about-oss) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)