Front-End Engineer

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

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 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 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.

As a Front-End Engineer at CrowdStrike, you will work with a talented and dedicated team to build and maintain the user interface for the Falcon platform. You will provide a high-quality user experience that our customers around the world use 24/7 to protect their systems from the most sophisticated adversaries.

Our JavaScript framework is Ember, but if you've used React, Angular, or Vue.js, you'll feel right at home, and we’ll help you get comfortable with both Ember and our codebase. Since we only support evergreen browsers, we can push the boundaries of what’s possible on the web platform while working with truly massive amounts of data. Our ideal candidates are sensitive to the needs of the users and love to find solutions in a unique and dynamic problem space.

Our ideal candidates are sensitive to the needs of the users and love learning more about their tools every day. Get excited about new features in Chrome Devtools? Tested your work in screen readers? Ever lost half an hour getting an animation’s bezier curve to be just the right kind of bouncy? Looking for a challenge that’s out of the ordinary? Get in touch!

You’ll be joining the Data Connectors group, building the front end of systems that ingest data from third-party sources for use within our application ecosystem. You'll collaborate closely with UX designers and QA to maintain a consistent user experience across all our products, as well as product management and backend engineers to establish product specifications and features. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for taking full ownership of the delivery of our products, driving the technical aspects, helping the team to define the architecture and coordinating with stakeholders in terms of scope and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain single page web applications written in JavaScript using Ember.js.
• Participate in the code review process for your own code and that of your fellow UI Engineers.
• Take initiative and build tools that improve your teams development experience.
• Write automated tests for your code.
• Collaborate with fellow UI Engineers, Cloud Engineers, UI Designers, Technical Writers, User Researchers, QA Analysts, Product Managers, and others.
• Continually learn about the ever-evolving challenges and complexities of the cybersecurity industry.
• Have fun solving hard problems!

Requirements

• A desire to collaborate closely with users, designers, & testers to deliver quality software that solves problems.
• A deep understanding of Javascript and considerable experience building thick-client applications with modern frameworks such as Ember, AngularJS, Backbone or React/Flux.
• Experience with testing frameworks, tools and methodologies such as QUnit, Mocha & Selenium.
• Functional knowledge & interest in developing genuinely accessible interfaces.
• Strong HTML & CSS skills, with bonus points for experience with animation, knowledge of appropriate CSS frameworks, and understanding of responsive design.

Company Information

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 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 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.