Senior Engineer in Test, CrowdStrike

• Successful engineers in this role have: an understanding of macOS kernel and user space, a passion for continuous learning to keep up with an ever-changing threat landscape, a creative mindset for designing new code validation methods to increase the quality, performance and the reliability of the shipped code
• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and when leading a team
• 5+ years of experience with either:
• Pentesting, reverse engineering, threat detection or analysis; and an interest in software quality, validation and testing, or
• Designing, building, and delivering frameworks and test harnesses to ship high-quality software in at least one of the following: Swift, C/C++, Python, Objective-C; and a demonstrated interest in security
• 1 year of experience in using big data to analyze and monitor software quality metrics
• Low-level OS knowledge of macOS and/or Linux operating system internals, components, APIs and/or frameworks
• Team player – able to lead, mentor, communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a distributed team, to clearly articulate thoughts & designs to peers and upper management

Desirable

• This is a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) position on the macOS sensor engineering team, in the detection space
• At CrowdStrike, SDETs and SDEs work together in combined engineering teams. SDETs are key contributors on the team, focusing on the quality of the sensor
• SDETs use their strong software development skills to build effective tools, harnesses, and specialized tests to assure that quality goals are met for each new capability
• SDETs also participate actively in design and code reviews, and collaborate with the research, hunting, and cloud teams to ensure end-to-end sensor functionality
• Analyze complex software features, and build effective test strategies and test designs
• Extend our existing codebase utilizing Swift, C++, Python, and other tools and DSLs (domain specific languages) as appropriate, to increase the testability and debuggability of the code
• Build useful tools, frameworks, and test setup to use for developing tests effectively; the goal is to maximize the coverage of automated testing at scale and minimize the manual testing effort
• Identify and write specialized tests necessary that are not feature-specific but are still important to ensure the quality of the system as a whole – performance, scalability, limits etc
• Debug bugs found through test or customer cases to identify root cause and use the input to improve tests
• Work collaboratively with product and release management to control risk, improve quality, and streamline our release cycles
• Rigorous product and test code reviews with an eye towards improving the security and robustness of the system as a whole
• Leverage your understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like secure coding, testing paradigms, debugging, performance, code reviews, CI/CD and OS internals, to ensure that our sensor code is fast and reliable
• Troubleshoot product issues as reported from customers responsively and other projects as assigned

• Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:12-10-2024