Senior Engineer – Sensor Security Platform

CrowdStrike

Engineer on Falcon sensor’s foundational detection and response functions at CrowdStrike. Collaborating across teams to modify and maintain sensor detection capabilities.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Write unit, functional and integration tests
Diagnose and resolve issues discovered by customers or other engineering teams

Requirements

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).

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

C++unit testingfunctional testingintegration testingdomain-specific languagescomplex systems designperformance optimizationcodebase maintenancesensor detectionresponse capabilities

Soft Skills

ownershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingresponsibilityteamworkadaptabilitydesign communicationtroubleshootinginterpersonal skills