Sr. Engineer - Cloud SDET - Lightning (Hybrid)
CrowdStrikeBase Salary
$140k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end validation of Lightning services across cloud-side and Falcon Sensor interactions at component, integration, and application levels.
- Build and maintain Lightning-specific testing tooling and frameworks while contributing to shared testing infrastructure.
- Define and drive functional, performance, contract, and chaos testing strategies.
- Participate in technical design and code reviews, advising on testability, quality, and code hygiene.
- Improve observability and monitoring, perform root cause analysis of production issues, and implement quality improvements to prevent outages.
- Mentor engineers and help drive a quality culture across the team or organization.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of combined experience as an SDET or backend developer.
- Experience building testing frameworks and tooling for cloud SaaS products or comparable service-oriented architectures.
- Experience defining or contributing to testing strategy at team or organizational level.
- Strong debugging skills, including identifying design flaws, race conditions, and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures.
- Expertise in at least one of Go, Python, Java, Kotlin, Rust, or C/C++; Go is the primary language.
- Experience with distributed cloud systems and technologies such as Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience with scalability challenges, CI/CD-integrated automated testing, and containerized development and deployment.
- Experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Experience building, operating, validating, or scaling low-latency cloud services with gRPC or event-driven messaging is a bonus.
- Experience building and shipping cloud-connected endpoint software, using OCI, or leveraging AI and agentic tools for testing automation is a bonus.
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving quality culture across a team or organization.
- Candidates must periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint checks consistent with government customer requirements.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 2–3 days per week onsite in a posted location.
- Competitive salary, bonuses, equity grants, health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays, plus paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities for employees at all levels and roles.
- Employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.
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About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value. CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.