Engineer III, Cloud SDET - Channel File Systems (remote) - Remote Eligible

Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)

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. 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 a 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

Channel File Systems at Crowdstrike is a critical component to our zero-prem-burden, scan-less automated threat detections, alerting and response product suite, enabling dynamic configurations on threat-detection sensors in customer environments, and coordinating distribution of those dynamic configurations to sensor groups in a time-effective and highly secure manner. CrowdStrike is looking for a 'development-first' SDET to join this product team in a role focused on building frameworks, libraries and tooling used for testing its unique distributed services and APIs, as well as contributing to its core production. 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.

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 the 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.
• Delve into back-end development as needed to have full understanding and drive the test efforts.

What You'll Need

• 7+ years of combined experience as an SDET and/or Backend Developer with primary focus on distributed services and APIs
• 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
• 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.
• 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.

Bonus Points

• Authored and led 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

This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.

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 Networks, geographic neighborhood 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 employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.