Software Engineer - Sensor (Remote, CAN)

About the Role:

CrowdStrike's Sensor Security Platform (SSP) team is hiring an engineer to work on the Falcon sensor’s foundational detection and response functions. The SSP team’s mission exists at the intersection of three broad Crowdstrike missions:

• Sensor mission - Whereas there may exist a holistic, end-to-end security platform that spans all of sensor and cloud; the SSP org specifically focuses on sensor-oriented mission, consisting of technology implemented entirely (or primarily) on the Crowdstrike endpoint agent known as the Falcon Sensor
   

• Security mission - Whereas the Falcon Sensor may behave as a generic endpoint agent that can satisfy many and arbitrary business use cases; the SSP org specifically focuses on security-oriented capability, consisting of technology that directly supports the company-wide mission of stopping breaches.

• 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 named components and technologies within the SSP technology portfolio are the Sensor Detections Pipelines, Sensor Detection Templates, Sensor Remediations Engine, Endpoint User Security as well as Sensor Antitampering.

This role is targeting candidates who would work across a number of the existing SSP technologies as well as build out new and future capabilities. 

What You’ll Do:

• 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

What You’ll Need:

• 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).

 

Bonus Points: 

• Fluency in writing Python

• Endpoint security background

• Experience designing or writing virtual machine runtimes

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

• 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

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike Canada ULC is committed to equal pay for equal work in its compensation practices. The base salary range for this position in Canada is $100,000 - $150,000 CAD per year + variable/incentive compensation + equity + benefits. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. This is Canadian-based employment, and it is expected that all employees maintain legal entitlement to work in Canada. Applicants selected to move forward in the hiring process are subject to background checks, including but not limited to criminal record, credit, and/or reference checks.