As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike 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 CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers 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.
About The Role:
Crowdstrike’s Sensor Security Platform team builds platform security tools for Crowstrike’s Falcon sensor, which runs on over 50 million endpoints worldwide. Our users are other engineering or operational teams inside Crowdstrike - we build security tools that enable other teams to stop breaches on the endpoint. We are looking for an entry level engineer to help us with that mission.
The Falcon sensor runs on the macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems. On some platforms it runs in the kernel, and on all platforms it must be highly reliable and performant. Our team works closely with teams who have deep expertise in OS systems and kernel programming, as well as in security response. We also partner with teams who write compilers for in house DSL languages to further our mission. This position does not require experience in any of those areas, but as a member of our team you will interact with people from those teams and learn certain parts of what they do.
Location:
This role is a hybrid role, working out of the posted location: Toronto, ON, Canada - requiring 2 days per week in office once the development center is opened/established.
What You’ll Do:
This is an endpoint role: you will write systems code running on endpoints and reasoning over event streams from the operating system.
A lot of the code you write will be in an in-house DSL for which a partner team inside Crowdstrike owns the compiler. This language is internal to Crowdstrike - we will train you in it.
You will gain expertise in the core logic of the falcon sensor: how it reasons over events from the operating system; filters those events; sends telemetry about them to our cloud; and takes security action based on them.
Understand, modify and assume shared ownership of complex and critical sensor detections and response capabilities.
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 unit, functional and integration tests (largely in Python).
Diagnose and resolve issues discovered by customers or other engineering teams
What You’ll Need:
Ability to take responsibility for and ownership of your work.
System programming experience, or interest in systems programming and operating systems, is useful because it will be important subject matter context. We do not expect deep OS internals knowledge at this level or for this role.
Good communication skills. As a platform team, our users are internal to Crowdstrike. We interact with many different parts of the organization, and learning to understand the needs of different teams is a big part of the job.
Ability to design and implement performant, functionally-correct and well-structured logic.
Ability reason about how our endpoint interacts with our cloud, and communicate with cloud development teams for both design and troubleshooting.
Learning to read and write some C++ (though this is not primarily a C++ position - at this level, prior experience is not required).
Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a distributed team (across timezones and continents, and with a variety of subject matter expertise).
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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
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
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