Senior SDET, Cloud Lightning — End-to-End QA Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation & holidays

Parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Job summary

CrowdStrike in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Developer in Test (SDET) for a hands-on, coding-intensive role on par with product development. The Sr. SDET will own Lightning testing tooling and validate interactions between cloud services and Falcon Sensor integrations.

The role emphasizes end-to-end validation, cross-functional design reviews, and contributing to service operations with strong debugging, cloud skills, and experience with CI/CD and containerized environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as an SDET or Backend Developer
• Experience building testing frameworks for a Cloud SaaS product
• Ability to define testing strategy at a team or organizational level
• Strong debugging skills to spot design flaws, race conditions, bottlenecks
• Expertise in Golang, Python, Java, Kotlin, Rust, or C/C++ and cloud stacks like Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end validation of Lightning services across cloud-side and Falcon Sensor interactions, spanning component, integration, and application levels
• Build and own Lightning-specific test tooling and frameworks
• Define and drive testing strategies across functional, performance, contract, and chaos testing concerns
• Participate in technical design reviews and provide guidance on testability and code hygiene
• Participate in code reviews with a focus on quality and SME for code hygiene
• Contribute to service operations, improving observability and resolving production issues

Skills

SDET experience

Backend development

Testing frameworks

Cloud SaaS

Tools

Kubernetes

Cassandra

Redis

Kafka

Job description

CrowdStrike in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Developer in Test (SDET) for a hands-on, coding-intensive role on par with product development. The Sr. SDET will own Lightning testing tooling and validate interactions between cloud services and Falcon Sensor integrations.

The role emphasizes end-to-end validation, cross-functional design reviews, and contributing to service operations with strong debugging, cloud skills, and experience with CI/CD and containerized environments.