Golang Developer Remote Location
Posted 2 days ago by 1765949653
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Go Software Engineer (Sr.) role at Crowdstrike Falcon involves developing and maintaining services for a cloud-native cybersecurity platform, focusing on reliability and scalability. The position requires extensive experience in Golang and microservices, with responsibilities including architectural improvements and mentoring other developers. Candidates should possess a strong background in distributed systems and a passion for optimizing software performance. This is a remote position based in the USA, classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands.
- Develop and enhance monitoring services.
- Extend and build new libraries for cross-cutting concerns across CrowdStrike's cloud platform.
- Constantly re-evaluate the product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability.
- Use and contribute to the open source community.
- Evangelize best practices for building software, particularly in Go.
- Collaborate with members across multiple teams.
- Mentor other developers on web, backend, and data storage technologies.
- Update OSS dependencies as needed.
- Be an energetic self-starter with ownership of deliverables.
Key Skills:
- 8+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role.
- 5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Expert-level knowledge of Golang.
- Ability to scale backend systems, including sharding and partitioning.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
- Knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
- Familiarity with Jenkins, Argo, Grafana, Graphite, and Prometheus.
- Team player with strong collaboration skills.
- Understanding of engineering best practices, including testing and code reviews.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Go Software Engineer (Sr.)
Location: Bay area, CA Irvine, CA
Skill Last Used Experience in Yearsmonth BR Number: Hands on Exp.
Golang
Microservices
SaaS
Grafana Prometheus
AWS
Job Description:
Crowdstrike Falcon is THE industry standard in cloud-native cyber security and threat hunting, processing Trillions of eventsday. You ll be positioned for optimal widespread impact with bottom-up ownership of our core codebase, driving architectural choices that affect every feature development team, providing shared architectural components to be leveraged throughout the Falcon Platform (things like Unified Search, Protobuf libraries and other shared-tier architectural components). If you re a math-brained or algorithmic thinker who loves optimization at its core, then we ve got the role to put your strengths to work Throwing you headfirst into our core codebase to push the capabilities of our platform and drive optimizations for the entire product suites architecture.
What Youll Do:
Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands.
Develop and enhance monitoring services.
Extend and build new libraries for cross-cutting concerns that compriseextend to the entirety of CrowdStrikes cloud platform, which consists of hundreds of libraries and services.
Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
Use and give back to the open source community.
Evangelize best practices for building software, especially as pertains to Go.
Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team.
Mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system.
Update OSS dependencies as needed
Be mentored and mentor other developers on web security, authentication and authorization strategies.
Be an energetic self-starter with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
What Youll Need:
8+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role
5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product
Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structuresalgorithmsdistributed systems).
Expert-level knowledge of Golang
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.
Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
Jenkins, Argo, Grafana, Graphite, Prometheus
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:
Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
Existing exposure to Java, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc.
Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence