Sr Software Engineer, Cloud - E2E Test

About the role

CrowdStrike Falcon Host is a two-component security product. One component is a "sensor," which is a lightweight agent installed on client machines that observes system activity and recognizes malicious behavior, then provides on-box prevention capability and remote telemetry to the Falcon Host cloud. The cloud component aggregates sensor telemetry for each customer's network, can correlate malicious behavior across multiple machines, and presents customers with a prioritized summary of the threats detected in their environments. We are looking for a Senior-to-Staff Software Engineer to join our growing quality foundations group, in a team & role focused on building frameworks, libraries and tooling used for testing our cloud services and sensors, essentially building out a testing infrastructure to be used throughout CrowdStrike going forward.

Responsibilities

• Verify component, system integration and application level features and functionality to ensure our reliability, accuracy and performance reaches our standards for quality.
• Review engineering technical design documents and requirements. Provide plan and strategy about how and where to build 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 that test things in new ways.
• Improve our delivered product quality across our entire platform and applications.
• Collaborate on determining the root cause of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future.
• Create and maintain test infrastructure. Built the frameworks and packages required to implement automation.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, etc.).
• At least 7 years (average exp: 10-15 yrs) as an SDET or Backend Developer (combined).
• Extensive software development experience in Python, C/C++, and/or other languages such as Go, Scala, Java, C#, or Node.js. 2-3+ years building testing frameworks and tooling for a Cloud SaaS product.
• Strong debugging skills with the ability to spot design flaws, race conditions etc in complex architectures.
• Experience with Jenkins operations and debugging.
• Proficiency with: Networking (protocols, distributed systems, layered architectures) & Web Services (JSON, REST, XML, AWS EC2 & S3.).
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 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, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, GRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins.

Skills

• Software Development
• Testing Frameworks
• Automation Testing
• Network Protocols
• Web Services
• AI Technologies

Benefits

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

Pay

The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $140,000 - $215,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off. For detailed information about the U.S. benefits package, please click here.

Schedule

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