CrowdStrike
Sr. Engineer - Cloud SDET - Lightning (Hybrid)
$140K–$215K
USA - Redmond, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- USA - Redmond, WA
USA - Sunnyvale, CA - Experience
- 9+ years combined; the posting states an average of 11–16 years.
About the job
Build and validate Lightning’s low-latency cloud services and test systems, while contributing to product code, quality strategy, and service operations.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end validation of Lightning services and improve testing processes, tooling, and frameworks.
- Define testing strategies and guide design and code reviews as the team’s quality and code-hygiene SME.
- Improve observability and monitoring, investigate production issues, and implement quality improvements to prevent outages.
What they ask for
- 9+ years of combined experience as an SDET and/or Backend Developer.
- Experience building test frameworks and tooling for a Cloud SaaS product or comparable SOA, and contributing to or defining testing strategy.
- Expertise in at least one of Golang, Python, Java, Kotlin, Rust, or C/C++; experience with distributed systems, cloud services, and scalability.
- Experience with CI/CD and automated testing, containerized environments, and proven use of AI technologies to improve workflows and outcomes.
Nice to have
- Experience building and operating low-latency cloud services with gRPC and event-driven messaging such as Kafka.
- Experience with cloud-connected endpoint software or AI and agentic tools for testing automation.
Pay
$140,000 - $215,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Golang, Python, Java, Kotlin, Rust, C/C++, Kubernetes, Cassandra
AI focus
Use AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes; AI and agentic tools for testing workflows are a bonus.
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