Software Engineer - Sensor (Remote, CAN)

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Software Engineer for its Sensor team to enhance cybersecurity solutions. The role involves tackling foundational detection and response functions in a collaborative environment. Candidates should possess strong C++ knowledge, system programming experience, and the ability to work well in a distributed team.

Benefits

Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

Market leader in compensation and equity awards

Comprehensive wellness programs

Paid parental and adoption leaves

Qualifications

• Experience in C++ and system programming is necessary.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Modify and own complex sensor detection capabilities.
• Write code across various languages, focusing on asynchronous responses.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to troubleshoot and design.

Skills

C++

collaboration

system programming

communication

Job description

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Software Engineer - Sensor (Remote, CAN)

Apply locations Canada - Remote ON Canada - Remote NS Canada - Remote NB Canada - Remote BC Canada - Remote AB time type Full time posted on Posted 6 Days Ago job requisition id R23706

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.

About the Role:

CrowdStrike's Sensor Security Platform (SSP) team is hiring an engineer to work on the Falcon sensor’s foundational detection and response functions. The SSP team’s mission exists at the intersection of three broad Crowdstrike missions:

• Sensor mission - Whereas there may exist a holistic, end-to-end security platform that spans all of sensor and cloud; the SSP org specifically focuses on sensor-oriented mission, consisting of technology implemented entirely (or primarily) on the Crowdstrike endpoint agent known as the Falcon Sensor
  

• Security mission - Whereas the Falcon Sensor may behave as a generic endpoint agent that can satisfy many and arbitrary business use cases; the SSP org specifically focuses on security-oriented capability, consisting of technology that directly supports the company-wide mission of stopping breaches.

• Platform mission - Whereas the Crowdstrike platform offers numerous, distinct products and modules; the SSP org specifically focuses on platform-oriented mission, consisting of technology that is reusable across products and modules and that underpins multiple security features and use cases.

Some named components and technologies within the SSP technology portfolio are the Sensor Detections Pipelines, Sensor Detection Templates, Sensor Remediations Engine, Endpoint User Security as well as Sensor Antitampering.

This role is targeting candidates who would work across a number of the existing SSP technologies as well as build out new and future capabilities.

What You’ll Do:

• Understand, modify and assume shared ownership of complex and critical sensor detections and response capabilities

• Gain expertise in core logic of the falcon sensor, becoming a resource for other developers within Crowdstrike who use (and build on top of) the technologies owned by our team.

• Communicate design, constraints, guarantees and other aspects of the system.

• Communicate and collaborate with other teams at Crowdstrike, including engineering teams who use our tools; adversary response teams; malware researchers; product and program managers; and others.

• Write code in a variety of languages, including internally developed, non-imperative domain-specific languages. (Much, but not all, of the work we need will be written in the in-house language. This language is highly asynchronous and used to write responses to system events such as process creation and network traffic. System programming experience on one or more of macOS, Linux, and Windows is helpful.)

• Write unit, functional and integration tests

• Diagnose and resolve issues discovered by customers or other engineering teams

What You’ll Need:

• Take responsibility for and ownership of their work.

• Design and implement performant, functionally-correct and well-structured logic.

• Can understand, maintain, and improve a large existing codebase.

• Can reason about, describe and communicate the nature of complex, highly-concurrent systems.

• Can reason about how our endpoint interacts with our cloud, and communicate with cloud development teams for both design and troubleshooting.

• Ability to read and write C++ (though this is not primarily a C++ position).

• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a distributed team (across timezones and continents, and with a variety of subject matter expertise).

Bonus Points:

• Fluency in writing Python

• Endpoint security background

• Experience designing or writing virtual machine runtimes

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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 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 Canada ULC is committed to equal pay for equal work in its compensation practices. The base salary range for this position in Canada is $100,000 - $150,000 CAD per year + variable/incentive compensation + equity + benefits. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location.This is Canadian-based employment, and it is expected that all employees maintain legal entitlement to work in Canada. Applicants selected to move forward in the hiring process are subject to background checks, including but not limited to criminal record, credit, and/or reference checks.

About Us

CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 to fix a fundamental problem: The sophisticated attacks that were forcing the world’s leading businesses into the headlines could not be solved with existing malware-based defenses. Founder George Kurtz realized that a brand new approach was needed — one that combines the most advanced endpoint protection with expert intelligence to pinpoint the adversaries perpetrating the attacks, not just the malware.

There’s much more to the story of how Falcon has redefined endpoint protection but there’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.