Sr. SDET - Cloud, Detection Engineer (Hybrid, London)

Location: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom. Occasional travel is required for in-person meetings.

Company

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company building an AI-native cloud platform that protects organizations from breaches and processes large-scale security event data.

What you will do

• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Develop an end-to-end validation pipeline for the Cloud Detections Platform.
• Verify component, system integration, and application-level functionality for reliability, accuracy, and performance.
• Increase automated test coverage and contribute to testing tools, frameworks, and open-source solutions.
• Participate in code and design reviews, provide technical guidance, and improve testability in engineering designs.
• Investigate production outage root causes and implement quality improvements across the platform.

Requirements

• 10+ years of combined experience as an SDET or Backend Developer.
• 4–5+ years of experience building testing frameworks and tooling for a Cloud SaaS product.
• Strong debugging skills, including identifying design flaws, race conditions, and performance bottlenecks.
• Experience building, validating, or maintaining large distributed systems at scale.
• Computer science background or equivalent knowledge of programming, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience with at least one of Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies.

Nice to have

• Experience building, operating, validating, and scaling low-latency internet services.
• Experience building and shipping cloud-connected endpoint software.
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Cybersecurity or threat intelligence experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, high-trust environment with autonomy over working time.
• Opportunities to learn new skills, mentor colleagues, and contribute to product direction.
• Competitive compensation and equity awards.
• Physical and mental wellness programs, vacation, holidays, and paid parental and adoption leave.
• Professional development opportunities, employee networks, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.