About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike stands as a global leader in cybersecurity, safeguarding the people, processes, and technologies powering modern organizations. Since 2011, our unwavering mission has been to stop breaches using the world's most advanced AI-native platform, the Falcon platform. We process nearly 3 trillion events daily across large-scale distributed systems, with traffic growing relentlessly. Serving customers across all industries, CrowdStrike ensures businesses run smoothly, communities stay safe, and lives move forward without interruption. Our remote-first culture empowers every CrowdStriker with flexibility and autonomy to own their careers, fostering limitless passion, relentless innovation, and fanatical commitment to customers, community, and each other.

Role Overview

The Engineer III, Cloud SDET - Channel File Systems (Hybrid) role is pivotal to CrowdStrike's zero-prem-burden, scan-less automated threat detection, alerting, and response suite. Channel File Systems enable dynamic configurations on threat-detection sensors in customer environments, coordinating secure, time-effective distribution to sensor groups. As a 'development-first' SDET, you'll build frameworks, libraries, and tooling for testing unique distributed services and APIs, while contributing to core production code. This hybrid position in Sunnyvale, California, requires 2-3 days weekly on-site, offering a challenging environment where quality defines our culture. Work with cutting-edge tools to verify features handling millions of events per second, terabytes of data, and precise customer delivery.

Key Technologies and Focus Areas

Expect to dive into verifying processing, data, and customer-facing layers. Leverage languages like Go, Python, Scala, Java, C++, and JavaScript, alongside networking protocols, REST/JSON/RPC web services, AWS EC2/S3, and data stores including PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis, and more. Strong debugging for race conditions and bottlenecks is essential in our high-stakes cybersecurity ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you'll drive quality across our platform:

• Verify component, system integration, and application-level features for reliability, accuracy, and performance.
• Review engineering technical design documents and requirements, strategizing testability.
• Increase automated test coverage and contribute to existing tools, frameworks, and solutions.
• Leverage open-source innovations to create novel testing tools.
• Improve product quality platform-wide and collaborate on root-causing production outages to prevent future issues.
• Create and maintain test infrastructure, build automation frameworks/packages, and delve into backend development for comprehensive testing.

Qualifications & Requirements

To succeed, bring:

• United States Citizenship or Permanent Residency (no clearance needed, but periodic background/fingerprint checks apply).
• 7+ years combined SDET/Backend Developer experience focused on distributed services and APIs.
• 2-3+ years building testing frameworks for Cloud SaaS products.
• Computer science background or equivalent (programming, data structures, algorithms).
• Expertise in Go/Python/Scala/Java/C++/JS, networking, web services (JSON/REST/RPC), AWS, RDBMS/NoSQL/caching (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Cassandra/Redis).
• Strong debugging skills for design flaws, race conditions, performance in complex systems.
• Experience in application/OS/browser/hardware testing, security understanding, and creatively breaking software.

Bonus Points: Open-source leadership (GitHub/Stack Overflow/blogging), exposure to Go/AWS/Cassandra/Kafka/Elasticsearch/gRPC/Docker/Kubernetes/Jenkins.

Benefits & Perks

CrowdStrike offers market-leading compensation ($120,000-$198,000 estimated) and equity awards. Enjoy comprehensive physical and health benefits, flexible hybrid scheduling, and a supportive ecosystem. Thrive in a culture prioritizing responsibility, challenges, and aggressive goals, with top-tier tools and collaboration.

Career Growth

At CrowdStrike, career ownership is real. Our remote-first culture provides autonomy to innovate on the Falcon platform, contributing to breach prevention at scale. Advance through ownership of high-impact projects, open-source contributions, and cross-team collaboration. With rapid growth, talented CrowdStrikers find endless opportunities to lead in cybersecurity.

Why Join CrowdStrike

Join a mission that matters: stopping breaches with AI-native Falcon technology. Work on petabyte-scale systems protecting millions, in a premium environment blending cutting-edge and proven tech. Our hybrid Sunnyvale role offers work-life balance, premium pay, and a community-driven culture. Be part of redefining security for the modern era.

Role FAQs

Q: Is this role fully remote? No, it's hybrid requiring 2-3 days/week on-site in Sunnyvale, CA.

Q: What experience level is needed? 7+ years SDET/Backend in distributed systems; 2-3+ years Cloud SaaS testing frameworks.

Q: Are there citizenship requirements? Yes, US Citizenship or Permanent Residency required for resource access.

Q: What salary can I expect? Estimated $120K-$198K USD/year, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Q: How does CrowdStrike support career growth? Through autonomy, innovation focus, and remote-first flexibility on mission-critical projects.

Ready to secure the future? Apply now for this Engineer III, Cloud SDET role at CrowdStrike.