CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader with an advanced cloud-native platform for protecting endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data. Backed by Accel, ICONIQ and IVP.
About the role
Lightning is a suite of services in the CrowdStrike cloud that expose sub-second, near-real-time APIs enabling Falcon Sensors to rapidly obtain threat information. Operating at massive scale, Lightning processes trillions of threat events daily within tight latency constraints — where performance and availability are critical to sensor operation and customer protection. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
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...
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