Senior SDET, AI Detection and Response

CrowdStrike

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$140,000–$215,000 / yr
Posted
22 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Similar $184k
This role $178k
$131k most similar roles pay here $224k

This role pays more than 50% of similar roles. Most pay $155,000–$212,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $178k versus about $184k for comparable roles.

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About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is a leading American cybersecurity technology firm, specializing in cloud-native endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and incident response.

CrowdStrike currently has 28 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $140,000–$215,000 across 28 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior SDET, AI Detection and Response

Senior SDET - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) joins the AIDR team to own end-to-end quality for a platform processing millions of AI security events per second and managing petabytes of critical data. This coding-intensive role involves building and owning specific test tooling, frameworks, and libraries while contributing to shared infrastructure across cloud-side backend services and UI applications. The candidate will drive strategies for functional, performance, contract, and chaos/resilience testing to ensure system reliability at scale. Required skills include expertise in Golang, Python, or Java, along with experience in distributed systems using Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and various cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or OCI. The role also requires proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and testing tools such as Jest, Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, and TestNG to mitigate sophisticated AI-based threats.

What you'll do

  • Own end-to-end validation of AIDR services across cloud-side backend and UI layers.
  • Build and maintain AIDR-specific test tooling, frameworks, and shared infrastructure.
  • Define and execute testing strategies for functional, performance, contract, and chaos engineering.
  • Verify high-volume data processing and customer-facing application layers for reliability at scale.
  • Participate in code and design reviews to ensure security, testability, and quality.
  • Perform root cause analysis on production issues and improve system observability and monitoring.
  • Increase automated test coverage across both backend services and UI applications.
  • Mentor team members on testing methodologies, secure coding practices, and quality engineering.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience as an SDET or Backend/UI Developer.
  • 3+ years building testing frameworks and tooling for a Cloud SaaS product or similar SOA.
  • Experience contributing to or defining testing strategy at a team or organizational level.
  • Strong debugging skills and ability to identify design flaws, race conditions, and performance bottlenecks in distributed architectures.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
  • Expertise in Golang, Python, or Java.
  • Experience with cloud distributed systems (Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka) and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or OCI).
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and testing tools like Jest, Cypress, or Playwright.

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