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Software Engineer, Sensor - SWAT/SDX (Remote)

at CrowdStrike, Inc. in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

CrowdStrike, Inc.

Full time

R18712

About The Role:

This is a software engineer role in the Sensor Developer Experience (SDX) engineering team that supports the development of CrowdStrike’s sensor. The tools engineer owns development of our build and test tools and works closely with the 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 and chipsets.


The Product:

CrowdStrike Falcon Host is a two-component security product. One component is our “sensor” which is 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.



What You’ll Do:
  • Support and improve existing tools for build, release, and engineering teams.

  • Define, build, and maintain tools to improve scale and efficiency in our product and release processes.

  • Drive and own improvements in product development pipelines and tooling.


  • What You’ll Need:
  • BS degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience.

  • 4 years or greater of software development experience in Python and C/C++.

  • Cross platform experience: Windows, Linux, and Mac

  • Endpoint, SDET, and/or DevOps background

  • Proficiencies with CMake, Bazel, Ninja, Docker, C/C++ Compiler Internals (MSVC, GCC, CLANG), Coverage tooling (codecov, lcov, gcov, coveralls, ...), Continuous-integration (Jenkins, GitHub workflows, ...)

  • Demonstrated history of leadership and independent research and development


  • Able to communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a globally distributed team.


  • Desired Requirements:
  • Ownership and/or primary maintainer on open source repository which demonstrates clean and organized engineering principals with developer friendly workflow integrations (continuous integration, code coverage, etc.)

  • Experience automating release and build processes.

  • Professional experience developing tools reflecting/supporting quality innovations.

  • Experience with LogScale, Splunk, or other logging platforms.

  • Experience writing frameworks or development of a SDK


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    Job Posting: 11986845

    Posted On: Jun 18, 2024

    Updated On: Jun 22, 2024

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