Software Engineer – Sensor, SaO; Hybrid

As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike 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 Crowd Strike 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. Crowd Strikers 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 Crowd Strikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters?

The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

Crowd Strike Falcon is a two-component security product. One component is the 'Sensor' — a lightweight agent installed on endpoint systems that observes system activity, recognizes malicious behavior, provides on-box prevention capability, and sends telemetry to the Falcon cloud. The cloud component aggregates Sensor telemetry across each customer's network, correlates malicious behavior across machines, and presents security teams with a prioritized summary of the threats detected in their environments.

The Falcon Sensor runs on tens of millions of endpoints worldwide, across Windows, macOS and Linux, in both user mode and kernel mode. Engineering software at that depth and that scale is among the hardest problems in the industry, and Crowd Strike holds the Sensor to an exceptionally high standard of quality, performance and engineering rigor. Sustaining that standard requires a team with true mastery of what software does at runtime, at the lowest levels of the stack.

That team is Sensor Performance and Reliability — Crowd Strike's team of debug engineers. Deep runtime analysis is our craft: postmortem memory dump analysis, disassembly and reverse engineering, and source-level analysis, used to explain with precision and evidence how low-level code behaves on real systems. It is one of the most technically demanding specialties in systems engineering, and very few organizations invest in it as a discipline in its own right.

We do, because at our scale the answer to 'what exactly happened, and why?' has to be exact rather than approximate.

Our mandate goes further than answering that question well. We're chartered to turn what we learn from deep analysis into durable engineering improvements — strengthening diagnostics, tooling, validation coverage and development practices so that lessons generalize far beyond the investigation that produced them, and so that the next analysis is faster than the last. Our work makes the product stronger, and it raises the engineering capability of every team we work with.

We are hiring an entry-level engineer to join us in that mission. We do not expect you to arrive with deep Windows internals, assembly, or reverse engineering experience. Those are skills we will teach you, and you will learn them from engineers who operate at the top of this field. What we are looking for is a strong programmer with excellent problem-solving instincts and genuine curiosity about how computers actually work underneath the abstractions — someone who is drawn to a hard, ambiguous problem rather than put off by it.

If you are the kind of person who cannot leave a mystery alone until you understand it completely, this is an unusually good place to build a career.

This is a hybrid role based out of one of the posted locations:
Redmond, WA or Sunnyvale, CA, with a combination of in-office and…