# Sr. Engineer - Cloud SDET - Lightning (Hybrid) at CrowdStrike

- Company: CrowdStrike
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: http://www.crowdstrike.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $215K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Apply by: 2026-12-04
- Apply: https://crowdstrike.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/crowdstrikecareers/job/USA---Redmond-WA/Engineer-III---Cloud-SDET---Lightning--Remote-_R24950?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/crowdstrike-sr-engineer-cloud-sdet-lightning-hybrid/

## 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


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/crowdstrike-sr-engineer-cloud-sdet-lightning-hybrid/