Software Engineer, CrowdStrike

• 5+ years of experience as an SDET or Backend Developer (combined)
• 2-3+ years building testing frameworks and tooling for a Cloud SaaS product
• Strong debugging skills: ability to spot design flaws, race conditions and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures
• A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, etc.)
• Experience in building, validating, and/or maintaining large distributed systems at scale
• Solid design and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated passion for engineering excellence, quality, security, and performance, coupled with a desire to ship elegant solutions to complex problems
• Strong cross-group collaboration and interpersonal communication skills working across engineering organizations
• Experience with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, Python, and/or similar technologies. You don’t need all of these, but you need at least one
• Both a sense of humor and a sense of humility

Desirable

• CrowdStrike is seeking a Software Developer in Test for our Detections Platform team
• This critical role in the organization will be responsible for validating that the cloud-side software that provides information to the endpoint agent, as well as the endpoint-side code that issues queries and incorporates the responses, is behaving as expected
• You’ll be building out an end-to-end validation pipeline leveraging existing frameworks and tooling where possible, but able to color outside the lines when necessary
• You’ll 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’s able to support low-latency prevention of malware, manage thousands of events per second, query across terabytes of data and deliver accurate information to the endpoint - which also processes the data properly
• Both build stuff and break stuff!
• Verify component, system integration and application level features and functionality to ensure our reliability, accuracy and performance reaches our standards for quality
• Participate in code and design reviews and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members
• Review engineering technical design documents and requirements. Provide guidance and strategy about how and where to build in testability
• Engage in continuous improvement of our end-to-end test and validation processes
• Increase and improve our automated test coverage, and 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 causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future
• Crowdstrike is a remote-friendly company, but we do get together from time to time. Some travel will be required for in-person meetings