Sr. Software Development Engineer II in Test (Hybrid, ROU)

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 Team:

The SDMF Core team is responsible for CrowdStrike's principal data model, metadata catalog and associated query services. The catalog scope runs the gamut from internal sources and users, to trusted third parties, and open industry standards.

Our mission is to enable data interoperability among all consumers, producers, and inquirers.

About the Role:

We are looking for a technical, hands-on Software Development Engineer in Test who will write code daily to develop automation and build tools that accurately ensure the quality, reliability and accuracy of our large-scale cloud-based cybersecurity systems.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our talented team of technology enthusiasts, learn and also contribute to one of the most revolutionary platforms in cyber security.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to existing tools, frameworks and related solutions.
• Plan, design, develop, verify, deploy and maintain automated test suites.
• Increase our automated test coverage and improve our release quality and velocity.
• Analyze product, system and feature designs for flaws and improvements.
• Validate and verify the integration of platform systems, services, data and applications.
• Validate and verify customer-facing features, end-to-end, across the product platform.
• Leverage new open source solutions to build new tools that test things in new ways.
• Build parallel test suites that run reliably in CI/CD pipelines, handling flaky tests and test result reporting.
• Drive performance testing efforts — load testing query engines, understanding latency/throughput tradeoffs, and identifying bottlenecks.
• Be part of engineering efforts turning rapid prototypes into large-scale core services.
• Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.

What You’ll Use:

• Go
• Python
• Jenkins
• Spinnaker
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
• SQL
• Redis
• AWS Cloud

What You’ll Need:

• 8+ years in test automation development experience / as an SDET.
• Good programming skills with the ability to read and understand complex codebases quickly.
• Solid experience in OOP, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems.
• Experience working with Web Services – JSON or REST / gRPC / RPC / XML - including unit and integration testing
• Familiarity with entity relationships, and type systems (e.g. working with structured data).
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of querying concepts across SQL or NoSQL (aggregations, grouping, filtering, pagination, sorting, joins)
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Delivery systems like Atlassian, Jenkins, etc.
• Productivity - GIT, Stash, Bamboo, JIRA.
• Strong investigations and debugging skills - using logs, traces, and metrics to diagnose test failures in distributed systems
• Team player skills - collaboration is key to building the best solutions.
• The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
• The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Bonus Points:

• Understanding of graph concepts (cycles, paths).
• Data platform concepts (data lakes, entity stores).
• Cloud platform exposure - AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Familiarity with semantic types.
• Security testing (authorization, data filtering).

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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 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.

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