Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud - Platform Test

Senior To Principal Software Engineer

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.

CrowdStrike is looking for an L7 (Senior to Principal) Software Engineer to join our growing cloud group in a team & role 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 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 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.

What You'll Need:

• At Least 7 years (Average Exp: 10-15 Yrs) 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++, C#, Node.js

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 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

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• 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.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.