Job Description
Senior Software Engineer
(Remote)
locations
USA – Remote
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R14808
#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters – and this traffic is growing daily. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters – one team, one fight.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Front-End Engineer to join our team to lead the UI architecture and design system of our Nextgen console product. It’s an exciting opportunity to influence the direction of our front-end architecture in the cybersecurity space. It’s a role that will collaborate closely with product design and UI engineering. If you are passionate about building complex user interfaces, this role is perfect for you.
What You’ll Do:
- Drive the technical strategy for the front-end architecture with flexibility, scalability, security and performance in mind.
- Lead documentation efforts focused on decisions, processes, key interactions and frameworks.
- Provide direction and recommendation on emerging trends and technologies by conducting an assessment of benefits and risks.
- Providing thought-leadership both upstream and downstream reporting lines.
- Mentor and help engineers to grow in their career.
- Collaborate with multiple teams such as backend developers, product designers and product managers.
What You’ll Need:
- Experience in building user centric and scalable UI design systems.
- Expert knowledge of the latest web standards and front-end engineering tools (HTML, CSS, Javascript, REST API, GraphQL, Typescript, Node/NPM, Responsive UI).
- A good understanding of Cloud Technologies and end to end delivery of data intensive SaaS products.
- Experience with Accessibility (a11y) best practices, tools and techniques such as compatibility with keyboard navigation, screen readers and WCAG guidelines.
- Experience with internationalization (i18n).
- Experience with front end frameworks such as React, Next.js, Vue and Ember (a huge plus).
- Knowledge of CI/CD best practices and tools for improving and maintaining performance and code quality.
- Strong communication skills in both verbal and written formats.
- Comfortable providing presentations and recommendations to stakeholder management.
- Be an advocate UX consistency, accessibility and empathy for the end user.
- Knowledge and experience of using micro front-ends and web components to architect framework agnostic applications shells for multi-framework support.
Bonus Points:
- Prior experience as a people manager or leading a technical team.
