# Engineer III, Cloud - Authentication & Authorization (Hybrid) at CrowdStrike

- Company: CrowdStrike
- What the company does: CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader with an advanced cloud-native platform for protecting endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data. Backed by Accel, ICONIQ and IVP.
- Company website: http://www.crowdstrike.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $185K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-03
- Apply by: 2026-12-18
- Apply: https://crowdstrike.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/crowdstrikecareers/job/USA---Sunnyvale-CA/Engineer-III--Cloud---Authentication---Authorization--Hybrid-_R30431?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/crowdstrike-engineer-iii-cloud-authentication-and-authorization-hybrid-2/

## About the role

You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for authentication and authorization. The Auth team is responsible for both internal (e.g. Service-to-service authorization, etc.) and external (e.g. user login, etc) authN and authZ. The team is a critical part of cloud, frequently working collaboratively with many other product groups. The team builds and extends services that can make 1+ trillion decisions per day! Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
- 6+ years of backend development experience
- 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


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/crowdstrike-engineer-iii-cloud-authentication-and-authorization-hybrid-2/