Sensor Technology Engineering

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. 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’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. The future of cybersecurity starts with you.
CrowdStrike's Sensor Security Platform (SSP) team is hiring an engineer to work on the Falcon sensor’s foundational detection and response functions. Sensor mission - Whereas there may exist a holistic, end-to-end security platform that spans all of sensor and cloud; Platform mission - Whereas the Crowdstrike platform offers numerous, distinct products and modules; the SSP org specifically focuses on platform -oriented mission, consisting of technology that is reusable across products and modules and that underpins multiple security features and use cases.

Some of the domains and technologies in the SSP portfolio are Sensor Classifications, Sensor Detection Pipelines and Templates, Sensor Security Posture and Response, Endpoint User Security as well as Sensor Anti-tampering.

This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.

Communicate and collaborate with other teams at Crowdstrike, including engineering teams who use our tools; 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

Design and implement performant, functionally-correct and well-structured logic.
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).
Bonus Points:
Fluency and expertise in Linux development environments
Fluency in writing Python
Experience designing or writing virtual machine runtimes

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