Sr. Engineer - Dev Experience Sensor

CrowdStrike Inc.; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Wellness programs

Generous vacation & holidays

Parental & adoption leaves

Professional development

Employee networks & volunteer programs

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking a Sr/Sr Staff-level Software Tools Engineer to join the End-to-End engineering team. You will validate sensor, cloud and UI workflows, and own build/test tool development across platforms.

You will shape automation, improve tools, and drive quality with strong Python/C++ skills. This on-site role in Redmond emphasizes collaboration, security awareness, and AI-enabled testing.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in software engineering, quality engineering, or configuration management.
• 10+ years of Python and/or C/C++ development experience.
• Able to communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a globally distributed team.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes.
• Expert Python knowledge (Strongly preferred).
• Experience with Jenkins operations and debugging (Strongly preferred).
• Experience in automating risk visibility and reporting (Strongly preferred).
• Experience in automating release and build processes (Strongly preferred).
• Experience in Application, OS, Web Browser or hardware compatibility testing (Strongly preferred).
• Computer and/or network security understanding (Strongly preferred).
• Professional experience developing tools reflecting/supporting quality innovations (Strongly preferred).

Responsibilities

• Verify component, system integration and application level features and functionality to ensure reliability, accuracy and performance.
• Define, build, and maintain tools to improve scale and efficiency in product development processes.
• Support and improve existing tools for sensor build and testing.
• Drive continuing improvement in our automation and CI/CD tools.
• Drive and own improvements in product quality coverage.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Software engineering

Team collaboration

AI technologies

Jenkins

Automation

Release automation

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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 Role:

CrowdStrike Falcon Host is a two-component security product. One component is a “sensor”, which is a lightweight agent installed on client machines that observes system activity and recognizes malicious behavior, then provides on-box prevention capability and remote telemetry to the Falcon Host cloud. The cloud component aggregates sensor telemetry for each customer’s network, can correlate malicious behavior across multiple machines, and presents our customers’ with a prioritized summary of the threats detected in their environments. This is a (Sr/Sr Staff-lvl) Software Tools Engineer role under the End-to-End engineering team that supports validation of customer workflows, involving real sensor, cloud and UI. The tools engineer owns development of our build and test tools and works closely with the product engineering teams. As a tools engineer, you will use your strong technical ability to drive visibility, quality and velocity across many different platforms, developing repeatable and scalable processes on all supported OS versions.

What You’ll Do:

• Verify component, system integration and application level features and functionality to ensure our reliability, accuracy and performance reaches our standards for quality
• Define, build, and maintain tools to improve scale and efficiency in our product development processes
• Support and improve existing tools for sensor build and testing
• Drive continuing improvement in our automation and CI/CD tools
• Drive and own improvements in product quality coverage.

What You’ll Need:

• BS degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience. (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, etc.)
• 10+ years-experience or greater in software engineering, quality engineering, or configuration management.
• 10+ years or greater of software development experience in Python and/or C/C++.
• Able to communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a globally distributed team.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• (Strongly preferred) Expert Python knowledge (Strongly preferred)
• (Strongly preferred) Experience with Jenkins operations and debugging (Strongly preferred)
• (Strongly preferred) Experience in automating risk visibility and reporting.
• (Strongly preferred) Experience in automating release and build processes.
• (Strongly preferred) Experience in Application, OS, Web Browser or hardware compatibility testing.
• (Strongly preferred) Computer and/or network security understanding.
• (Strongly preferred) Professional experience developing tools reflecting/supporting quality innovations

Bonus Points:

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.
• Experience applying AI/ML to testing (e.g intelligent test case generation).
• Experience with distributed architectures, microservices, GoLang Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) #LI-MP2

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.

Find out more about your rights as an applicant.

CrowdStrike participates in the E-Verify program. Notice of E-Verify Participation Right to Work 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 $140,000 - $220,000 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.

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 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.