Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to stopping breaches with their advanced AI-native platform. They are seeking a Senior Engineer to work on the Falcon sensor’s detection and response functions, focusing on sensor-oriented, security-oriented, and platform-oriented missions.

Responsibilities

• Understand, modify and assume shared ownership of complex and critical sensor detections and response capabilities
• Gain expertise in core logic of the falcon sensor, becoming a resource for other developers within Crowdstrike who use (and build on top of) the technologies owned by our team
• Communicate design, constraints, guarantees and other aspects of the system
• Communicate and collaborate with other teams at Crowdstrike, including engineering teams who use our tools; adversary response teams; malware researchers; product and program managers; and others
• Write code in a variety of languages, including internally developed, non-imperative domain-specific languages. (Much, but not all, of the work we need will be written in the in-house language. This language is highly asynchronous and used to write responses to system events such as process creation and network traffic. System programming experience on one or more of macOS, Linux, and Windows is helpful.)
• Write unit, functional and integration tests
• Diagnose and resolve issues discovered by customers or other engineering teams

Skills

• Take responsibility for and ownership of their work
• Design and implement performant, functionally-correct and well-structured logic
• Can understand, maintain, and improve a large existing codebase
• Can reason about, describe and communicate the nature of complex, highly-concurrent systems
• Can reason about how our endpoint interacts with our cloud, and communicate with cloud development teams for both design and troubleshooting
• Ability to read and write C++ (though this is not primarily a C++ position)
• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a distributed team (across timezones and continents, and with a variety of subject matter expertise)
• Fluency and expertise in Linux development environments
• Fluency in writing Python
• Endpoint security background
• Experience designing or writing virtual machine runtimes
• Experience with machine learning on the endpoint - we are building an ML platform team to facilitate endpoint ML deployments

Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses
• Equity grants
• A comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance
• 401k
• Paid time off
• 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

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