Sr. Engineer - Sensor SDET (Remote)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not specified
• Job Type: Full time
• Salary: Not specified

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Our mission is to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with an AI-native platform. We work on large-scale distributed systems, processing trillions of events daily and have petabytes of RAM deployed across our servers, with daily traffic growth. Our customers span all industries, relying on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, communities safe, and lives moving forward. We are a mission-driven company fostering a culture of flexibility and autonomy, seeking talented individuals with passion, innovation, and a commitment to our customers, community, and each other.

Team Overview: Falcon For IT Falcon For IT offers real-time asset visibility and AI-native automation for IT and security teams. It provides a unified view, enabling teams to operate under the "Ask Answer Act" model: ask any question about any asset, get fast answers, and take decisive action.

About the Role

This role focuses on efficient automation and tool development, delivering high-quality testing results across multiple platforms, and thriving with responsibility, challenges, and aggressive goals. It requires strong communication, collaboration, and the ability to increase and improve automated test coverage. The role also involves leading and mentoring the automation team.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, extend, and maintain automation frameworks, tools, and scripts to enhance testing efficiency and accuracy, with a focus on performance, stress, and longevity testing.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for automation and testing processes to optimize software development, testing, and release workflows.
• Review engineering technical design documents and requirements.
• Provide plans and strategies for integrating testability into the development process.
• Lead comprehensive testing efforts across Windows, Mac, and Linux to ensure consistent and reliable performance.
• Contribute to existing tools, frameworks, and related solutions.
• Collaborate with teams to expand test coverage.
• Leverage knowledge of cloud services and containerization to create and manage efficient, scalable testing environments.
• Oversee testing for system reliability and scalability, ensuring performance and quality standards are met and proactively identifying areas for improvement.
• Create and maintain test infrastructure.
• Build the frameworks and packages required for automation implementation.
• Mentor and lead the automation team, providing guidance, support, and growth opportunities while fostering a high-performing team culture.

What You'll Need

• Computer science background or equivalent 10+ years of experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, etc.).
• Exposure to cross-platform testing for consistent performance, reliability, and scalability across different operating systems.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Python, C++, Groovy, Bash, PowerShell.
• Proficiency in Networking: protocols, distributed systems, layered architectures.
• Knowledge of cloud services and containerization technologies.
• Experience with Web Services: JSON, REST, RPC, XML, AWS EC2 & S3.
• Strong debugging skills, with the ability to identify design flaws, race conditions, and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures.
• Prior experience with application, OS, web browser, or hardware compatibility testing.
• Understanding of computer and/or network security.

Bonus Points

• Authored and/or led successful open-source projects.