Senior Engineer - Cloud

About the role

CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer for its Falcon Shield team, which builds SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) solutions. The role involves building and maintaining highly scalable backend systems that process customer data and give enterprises visibility into their security posture, risks and gaps. It is a hybrid position open to candidates in the Israel area.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend systems at high scale, with emphasis on efficiency and scalability.
• Take an active part in product decisions from design through optimization, deployment, maintenance and monitoring.
• Use Claude Code as a core part of the workflow: planning features, writing and testing code, reviewing PRs, profiling and benchmarking, and investigating production issues across logs, metrics and data stores.
• Build and evolve internal AI tooling, including Claude Code skills, plugins, MCP servers and project context for the R&D organization.
• Review, verify and test AI-generated code to the same standard as your own.
• Work closely with peers from other teams such as Product and Customer Success/Support, and keep services healthy and running.

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience developing backend cloud systems with a high-level language, and 3+ years with Python.
• Proven experience on large systems and handling scaling issues.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) in daily development.
• Strong engineering judgment to direct AI agents and proven experience improving workflows and efficiency with AI.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Required skills

• Python and Django
• MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Linux
• DuckDB, Parquet / PyArrow
• GCP: Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, KMS
• Proficiency with algorithms, data structures and code whiteboarding

Bonus points: Python internals, MongoDB, Parquet / DuckDB, microservice infrastructure, extending AI coding tools (MCP servers, plugins), and context engineering or build/debugging experience.

What we offer

• Market-leading compensation and equity awards
• Wellness programs, paid vacation and holidays, and parental and adoption leave
• Professional development opportunities and employee networks
• A certified "Great Place to Work" culture