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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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.
About the Team:
The CrowdStrike Detection Engine (CDE) team is building a powerful, next-generation platform designed to be a force multiplier for security teams. Our platform empowers customers who leverage multiple Falcon products to create and manage advanced, unified detections and content. This core platform capability is a strategic imperative for CrowdStrike, aiming to provide a competitive advantage that is difficult to replicate, ensuring our customers have unparalleled detection and response capabilities across the entire Falcon ecosystem.
About The Role:
CrowdStrike is seeking a Software Developer in Test for our Cloud Detections Platform team, which is tasked with building CrowdStrike’s next generation detection platform. In this capacity, you will be in charge of developing and operating the team's CI/CD pipeline, making sure our solutions work, and raising the alarm when they suddenly don’t. You’ll be building out an end-to-end validation pipeline, largely from scratch, leveraging existing frameworks and tooling where possible, but able to color outside the lines when necessary. You’ll work in an environment where quality is the company culture. Come use cutting edge tools and technologies as well as tried and true ones.
Work on: verifying key features and functionality that spans our processing, data and customer facing application layers to ensure it’s able to support low-latency prevention of malware, manage tens of thousands of events per second, query across terabytes of data and support the team in delivering quality code, tested to perfection.
This is a hybrid role based out of our office in NYC. Candidate should be comfortable visiting the office twice a week once the development center is established.
What You'll Do:
Both build stuff and break stuff!
Verify component, system integration and application level features and functionality to ensure our reliability, accuracy and performance reaches our standards for quality.
Participate in code and design reviews and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members.
Review engineering technical design documents and requirements. Provide guidance and strategy about how and where to build in testability.
Engage in continuous improvement of our end-to-end test and validation processes.
Increase and improve our automated test coverage, and 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 root causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future.
Crowdstrike is a remote-friendly company, but we do get together from time to time. Some travel will be required for in-person meetings.
What You'll Need:
5+ years of experience as an SDET or Backend Developer (combined)
2-3+ years building testing frameworks and tooling for a Cloud SaaS product
Strong debugging skills: ability to spot design flaws, race conditions and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures.
A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, etc.)
Experience in building, validating, and/or maintaining large distributed systems at scale.
Solid design and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated passion for engineering excellence, quality, security, and performance, coupled with a desire to ship elegant solutions to complex problems.
Strong cross-group collaboration and interpersonal communication skills working across engineering organizations.
Experience with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, Python, and/or similar technologies. You don’t need all of these, but you need at least one.
Both a sense of humor and a sense of humility.
Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Bonus Points:
Prior experience with building, operating, validating, and scaling low-latency internet services.
Experience with building and shipping cloud-connected endpoint software.
Solid grounding in the technology of at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Exposure to/experience with cybersecurity and intelligence.
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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
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
CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.
CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.
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CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $120,000 - $180,000 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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software development experience focused on large-scale distributed systems
- Deep expertise in one or more modern programming languages
- Go experience (preferred language)
- Proven track record architecting and delivering highly available, scalable platform services in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Extensive experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink) and distributed computing concepts
- Experience developing scalable microservices and working with Kubernetes
- Experience with data stores and messaging systems (Cassandra, OpenSearch, Postgres, Redis)
- Experience in a Staff-level role driving multi-quarter initiatives and influencing technical direction
- Excellent communication skills to explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity or SIEM principles and content/rule authoring lifecycles
- Experience with RocksDB or similar embedded storage engines (bonus)
- Familiarity with low-latency, real-time event processing, query languages, and runtime environments (bonus)
What the Team is Saying
CrowdStrike Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials outline medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside HSAs/FSAs and an Employee Assistance Program, indicating a comprehensive health foundation.
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Parental & Family Support — Official documents include paid family leave, family care resources, and adoption and infertility assistance, signaling meaningful support for caregivers.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are paired with an Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a lookback discount, enhancing participation in company ownership.
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What We Do
CrowdStrike has redefined security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform that protects and enables the people, processes and technologies that drive modern enterprise. Tested and proven, the world's largest organizations trust CrowdStrike to stop breaches with unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. The CrowdStrike culture has been built upon our Core Values since the day we began. We are Fanatical About the Customer, Relentlessly Focused on Innovation and believe that our Limitless Passion drives Unlimited Potential for every CrowdStriker. As a purpose-built remote-first company, we believe cultivating a connected culture for every employee, no matter where they are in the world, is a key ingredient in building a high-performing, diverse team. We don’t have a mission statement. We’re on a mission—to stop breaches. Ready to join a mission that matters?
Why Work With Us
We have a culture that celebrates achievement, encourages flexibility and innovation and thrives on teamwork. We all work towards a single mission: to stop breaches. This common goal drives a sense of community and connection among our people across the globe.
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