Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Employment Type: Full-time

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Position Overview

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We operate at a massive scale, processing almost 3 trillion events per day with continuously growing traffic. Our customers span all industries, relying on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe, and their lives moving forward. We are a mission-driven company with a culture that empowers every CrowdStriker with flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We are seeking talented individuals with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, community, and each other. The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role

CrowdStrike is looking for a Senior SDET to join our growing cloud team. We seek intelligent individuals who are eager for challenges and ownership of their work, thriving in an environment where quality is a core company culture. You will utilize cutting-edge and proven technologies to verify key features and functionality across our processing, data, and customer-facing application layers, ensuring support for millions of events per second, terabytes of data, and accurate customer information delivery.

Success in this role means:

• A passion for creatively and effectively breaking software systems.
• Producing robust solutions for product quality concerns.
• Thriving with responsibility, challenges, and ambitious goals.
• The ability to communicate, collaborate, and deliver effectively.

What You'll Do

• Verify component, system integration, and application-level features and functionality to ensure our reliability, accuracy, and performance meet quality standards.
• Review engineering technical design documents and requirements, providing plans and strategies for building 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 for innovative testing approaches.
• Improve delivered product quality across our entire platform and applications.
• Collaborate on determining the root cause of production outages and implementing quality improvements to prevent future occurrences.
• Create and maintain test infrastructure, including building frameworks and packages required for automation implementation.

What You'll Need

• A computer science background or equivalent experience (understanding of programming styles, data structures, algorithms, etc.).
• Experience with any/all of the following: Go, Python, Scala, Java, C++, JavaScript.
• Proficiency with:
  • Networking: Protocols, distributed systems, layered architectures.
  • Web Services: JSON, REST, RPC, XML, AWS EC2 & S3.
  • Data Storage: RDBMS, NoSQL, and Caching Technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, SQLServer, Redis, and/or MemCache.
• Strong debugging skills: ability to identify design flaws, race conditions, and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures.
• Experience with application, OS, web browser, or hardware compatibility testing.
• Understanding of computer and/or network security.

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.
• Experience with Pigeon Test Automation Framework.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture.
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Competitive vacation and holidays.