Sensor Security Engineer — Falcon Platform & Detections

CrowdStrike; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading compensation

Equity awards

Comprehensive wellness programs

Paid time off and holidays

Parental and adoption leaves

Professional development opportunities

Employee networks and community groups

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certified

Job summary

CrowdStrike in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Sensor Software Engineer to advance the Falcon Sensor across platforms, focusing on complex detections and response capabilities. You will gain expertise in core sensor logic and become a resource for other developers.

You will write code in multiple languages, run tests, and collaborate with teams across time zones. Strong C++ skills and AI awareness are a plus.

Qualifications

• 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).
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Ownership

System design

Concurrent programming

C++ reading/writing

Distributed collaboration

AI integration

Job description

CrowdStrike in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Sensor Software Engineer to advance the Falcon Sensor across platforms, focusing on complex detections and response capabilities. You will gain expertise in core sensor logic and become a resource for other developers.

You will write code in multiple languages, run tests, and collaborate with teams across time zones. Strong C++ skills and AI awareness are a plus.