Sr. Engineer - Cloud SDET - Lightning (Hybrid)
About The Position
CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Software Developer in Test (SDET) to join the Lightning team. This role involves a hybrid contribution to both the design and creation of custom test tooling, frameworks, and systems, as well as contributing to the core product code. The SDET will act as a backend developer and test SME, validating key features across processing, data, and customer-facing application layers. The role requires ensuring the system supports low-latency malware prevention, manages thousands of events per second, queries terabytes of data, and delivers accurate information to the endpoint. Responsibilities include guiding design discussions and code reviews with a focus on quality, serving as the team's SME for code hygiene, and contributing to service operations. Testing concerns span functional, performance, contract, and chaos/resilience engineering. Cybersecurity experience is a plus but not a prerequisite. This team values collaboration, high ownership, schedule flexibility, and trust in expertise for test architecture design and implementation.
Requirements
- 9+ years of experience (Avg. YoE: 11-16 years) as either/both an SDET or Backend Developer (combined)
- Experience building testing frameworks and tooling for a Cloud SaaS product or other SOA with similar cloud components
- Experience contributing to or defining testing strategy at a team or organizational level
- Strong debugging skills: ability to spot design flaws, race conditions, and performance bottlenecks in complex architectures
- Expertise in any of: Golang, Python, Java, Kotlin, Rust, or C/C++ — Go is our primary language, but strong engineers in any of these are welcome and we support ramp-up
- Experience in a cloud distributed systems stack: e.g. Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, and/or similar technologies — you don't need all of these specifically, but transferable skills in each category are a must
- Experience with distributed systems and scalability challenges
- Experience with cloud services, such as AWS or GCP, particularly compute and storage offerings
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing into deployment workflows
- Experience developing and deploying in containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving quality culture across a team or organization
Nice To Haves
- Experience building, operating, validating, and scaling low-latency cloud services using gRPC and event-driven messaging systems such as Kafka
- Experience building and shipping cloud-connected endpoint software
- Experience with at least one cloud environment, such as AWS, GCP, or OCI
- Experience leveraging AI and agentic tools to enhance testing workflows and automation
Responsibilities
- Build and own end-to-end validation of Lightning services across cloud-side and Falcon Sensor interactions, spanning component, integration, and application levels, while continuously improving test and validation processes
- Build and own Lightning-specific test tooling and frameworks, while leveraging and contributing to shared organization-wide testing tools and infrastructure
- Define and drive testing strategies across functional, performance, contract, and chaos testing concerns
- Guide technical design reviews in quality SME capacity, to provide clear guidance on testability, quality, and code hygiene
- Leverage new open source solutions to build new tools that test things in new ways
- Own code reviews with a focus on quality, serving as the team's SME for code hygiene
- Contribute to service operations, including improving overall service observability and monitoring, root cause analysis of production issues, and implementing quality improvements to prevent future outages
Benefits
- 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
- Health insurance
- 401k
- Paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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