Senior Cloud SDET: Real-Time Backend Testing Lead

CrowdStrike, Inc.; Redmond, California (WA, MO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Wellness programs

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certified

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Developer in Test (SDET) to guide test architecture for Lightning services, spanning cloud and endpoint interactions.

You will own test tooling, framework development, and drive testing strategies across functional, performance, contract, and chaos testing. The role emphasizes collaboration, quality ownership, and scalable testing in a hybrid environment with on-site days in Redmond, WA.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience as an SDET or Backend Developer (combined).
• Experience building testing frameworks and tooling for a Cloud SaaS product or SOA.
• Experience contributing to testing strategy at team or organizational level.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end validation of Lightning services across cloud-side and Falcon Sensor interactions.
• Build and own Lightning-specific test tooling and frameworks.
• Define and drive testing strategies across functional, performance, contract, and chaos testing.

Skills

SDET experience

Backend development

Testing frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Java

C/C++

Distributed systems

AWS

Redis

Tools

Kafka

Cassandra

Redis

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Developer in Test (SDET) to guide test architecture for Lightning services, spanning cloud and endpoint interactions.

You will own test tooling, framework development, and drive testing strategies across functional, performance, contract, and chaos testing. The role emphasizes collaboration, quality ownership, and scalable testing in a hybrid environment with on-site days in Redmond, WA.