Sr. Software Engineer, SDET - Cloud (Remote)

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. We have 3.44 PB of RAM deployed across our fleet of C* servers - 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 an inclusive 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:

CrowdStrike is looking for a Senior-to-Principal SDET to join our growing cloud team. The role will be focused on building frameworks, libraries and tooling used for testing our services, essentially building out a testing infrastructure to be used throughout Crowdstrike going forward. We're looking for smart people who want to be challenged and take ownership of what they build. Work in an environment where quality is the company culture. Come use cutting edge tools and technologies as well as tried and true ones. Work on: verifying key features and functionality that spans our processing, data and customer facing application layers to ensure it supports millions of events per second, stores terabytes of data and delivers accurate information to the customer.  

Success in This Role Means:

• A love for breaking software systems in creative and useful ways.

• Producing rock solid solutions for all manner of product quality concerns.

• Thriving with responsibility, challenges and aggressive goals.

• Ability to communicate, collaborate and deliver.

What You'll Do:

• Verify component, system integration and application level features and functionality to ensure our reliability, accuracy and performance reaches our standards for quality.

• Review engineering technical design documents and requirements. Provide plan and strategy about how and where to build in testability

• Increase and improve our automated test coverage.

• Contribute to existing tools, frameworks and related solutions.

• Leverage new open source solutions to build new tools that test things in new ways.

• Improve our delivered product quality across our entire platform and applications.

• Collaborate on determining root cause of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future.

• Ability to create and maintain test infrastructure. Built the frameworks and packages required to implement automation.

What You'll Need:

• 10+ years of experience as an SDET or Backend Developer (combined)

•  2-3+ years building testing frameworks and tooling for a Cloud SaaS product

• A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, etc.)

•   Experience with any/all of the following: Go, Python, Scala, Java, C++, JavaScript

Proficient With:

• Networking: protocols, distributed systems, layered architectures.

• Web Services: JSON, REST, RPC, XML, AWS EC2 & S3.

• Data storage: RDMBS, NoSQL, and Caching Technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, SQLServer, Redis, and/or MemCache.

• Strong debugging skills: ability to spot design flaws, race conditions and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures.

• Application, OS, Web Browser or hardware compatibility testing.

•  Computer and/or network security experience/understanding.

Bonus Points:

• Authored and lead successful open source libraries and projects.

• Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).

• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, GRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards

• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs

• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge

• Paid parental and adoption leaves

• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role

• Employee Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood groups and volunteer opportunities to build connections

• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities

• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. Our approach to cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture is rooted in listening, learning and collective action. By embracing the diversity of our people, we achieve our best work and fuel innovation - generating the best possible outcomes for our customers and the communities they serve.
 

Right to Work

CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary range for this position in the U.S. is $135,000 - $215,000 per year + variable/incentive compensation + equity + benefits. A candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location.

Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:12-14-2024