[Hiring] Senior Automation Engineer @CrowdStrike

Role Description

As a Senior Engineer - Automation on our Falcon Complete Managed Detection & Response (MDR) team, you will lead the design and implementation of complex security automation workflows and services that scale our operations through advanced automation and AI. Our mission is to build and enhance innovative and agentic systems that detect, analyze, investigate, and remediate threats at scale, and you will empower our analysts with state of the art agentic tools. You will serve as a subject matter expert (SME) in automation technologies, mentor junior team members, and drive innovation in AI-powered security operations. You'll partner closely with Falcon Complete analysts and Engineering stakeholders, and be accountable for the delivery of automation systems that measurably speeds up or automates threat triage, investigation, and response.

What You'll Do

• Own the end-to-end design and implementation of new features and product enhancements that drive our mission.
• Architect both deterministic and agentic automation pipelines that combine service development, scripting, orchestration, and enrichment across many security tools.
• Conduct complex analysis requiring in-depth evaluation of variable factors to architect end-to-end automation solutions that solve real-world security problems at enterprise scale.
• Work directly with Falcon Complete analysts, stakeholders and partners to gather feedback and build these products and systems.
• Design and implement reliable and performant solutions to enable continued scalability as we grow.
• Build with resiliency and quality, constantly improve the effectiveness of service monitoring and proactively address issues in our services.
• Participate in an OnCall rotation in order to ensure high quality operations 24/7 of critical systems.
• Be a technical leader and mentor for the team. Mentor other engineers, review code and designs, conduct interviews, evaluate new technologies, and drive technical standards and best practices.
• Write automation to reduce operational load and increase velocity within the team.

What You’ll Need

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in automation engineering, scripting, or cybersecurity, with demonstrated progression in technical complexity and leadership responsibilities.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field. Equivalent professional experience and industry certifications will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Professional experience with at least one of the following programming languages: Golang, Python, JavaScript, C++, or Java, and a willingness to use Golang and JavaScript.
• Experience with and a foundational understanding of LLMs and agentic development systems.
• Practical experience building enterprise quality web services or data pipelines at scale.
• Practical experience with version control technologies like Git and CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
• Operational knowledge of common cloud technologies, including databases such as Postgres, messaging systems such as Kafka, experience with Docker, and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated leadership experience and ability to mentor junior team members, with excellent written and verbal communication, project management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• The ability to thrive in a highly asynchronous and remote environment.
• To be someone who enjoys working with a team with many perspectives and backgrounds.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Points

• Practical experience building user interfaces.
• Practical experience building services within a microservices architecture.
• Experience doing high-level system design and architecture on distributed and scalable systems.
• Cybersecurity experience using SOAR platforms, SIEM tools, or the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, or experience building products in the security domain.
• Unix system fundamentals.
• PowerShell experience.
• Data science, agentic training, or other experience developing non-deterministic AI systems.
• Experience with prompt or context engineering and optimizing AI-powered workflows.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI.
• Experience with cloud observability tools.
• You proactively seek to improve team productivity with automation.
• You have a passion for reliability and quality.
• You have a strong desire to continue to learn and grow.

Benefits

• 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