CrowdStrike, Inc.
Sr. Engineer, SDET - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) (Hybrid, Sunnyvale)
USA - Sunnyvale, CA · Senior
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$19,744 more — $159,744 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $159,744 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- You'll work closely with engineering teams to expand test coverage across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end layers while modernizing our test infrastructure.
- This role combines deep technical expertise in test automation with strategic thinking about quality at scale.
- Coverage Expansion: Work with service owners and independently to improve test coverage from current baseline - unit, integration, and E2E tests.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement contract testing framework to verify API contracts between various system components.
- Develop comprehensive E2E test scenarios covering multi-collector deployments and policy enforcement workflows.
- Implement quality telemetry through observability with detailed reporting. Create metrics dashboards, and alerting. Work with SRE and developers to create playbooks and support documentation.
- Experience building testing frameworks and tooling for Cloud SaaS products
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Requirements
- Expertise at programming languages: Python, Go, Javascript
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and testing in cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP) Strong debugging skills with ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems
Skills
- Docker, Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
- Experience with cloud performance testing and monitoring tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana)
- Bonus Points:
- Experience testing AI/ML systems, LLM applications, or prompt engineering security
- Performance testing experience with large-scale SaaS products handling high throughput, concurrent users, and distributed architectures
- Familiarity with ML development lifecycle, model training, evaluation, and deployment
- Hands-on experience with AI efficacy testing, adversarial testing, or red teaming
- Experience with browser extension testing frameworks
- Background in API gateway testing (Kong, Envoy, LiteLLM, etc.)
- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or agentic AI systems
- Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Compensation
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Benefits
- Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
- Paid parental and adoption leaves
Company info
- 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.
- 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 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.
This listing is sourced directly from CrowdStrike, Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.