About the Role
Are you an SDET who wants to define how AI agents are tested, evaluated and trusted in production?
The CrowdStrike Detonations and Threat Analysis Platform Engineering team is hiring a hands-on Software Development Engineer in Test. You'll build and maintain the functional, integration and performance automation that keeps our large-scale, cloud-based cybersecurity platform reliable. You'll also help shape how we test AI. Our core testing frameworks include agentic test generation and analysis, and we use eval-driven development (EDD) to validate the AI agents we build.
What You'll Do
•Design, develop and maintain automated test suites and frameworks for distributed, cloud-based systems
•Maintain and extend the agentic test generation and analysis tooling built into our major testing frameworks
•Build AI-powered workflows and agent skill files that automate manual test toil, such as test data setup, failure triage and release validation
•Maintain eval suites, golden datasets and scoring pipelines for our AI agents, scoring correctness, tool use, trajectory, faithfulness, safety, latency and cost
•Enforce CI eval gates so that every change to prompts, models, tools or orchestration is measured before release, and feed production failures back into the eval sets
•Detect and mitigate unreliable AI output, including hallucinated assertions, flaky or redundant tests, incorrect failure triage and judge bias
•Design, run and analyze performance, load and stress tests to find bottlenecks and validate scalability across distributed services
•Validate the integration of platform systems, services, data and applications, as well as customer-facing features end-to-end
•Review product, system and agent designs for testability, evaluability, flaws and improvements
•Share knowledge and contribute to the team's quality and evaluation standards
What You'll Use
•Languages: Java, Node.js, Python, Go
•Data & Messaging: MongoDB, MinIO, RabbitMQ, Kafka
•Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, DynamoDB), Docker, Nomad, Terraform, Unix/Linux
•CI/CD & Tooling: Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Jira, Bitbucket
•Performance Testing: Locust, k6
•AI/Agentic & Evals: LLM APIs, agent frameworks and LLM eval tooling
What You'll Need
•Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience (OOP, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems)
•5+ years in software quality, including 3+ years of hands-on SDET or test automation development
•Strong programming skills in at least one of Java, Node.js or Python, with Python preferred for eval and agent work
•Proven experience designing, building and maintaining test frameworks integrated with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
•Experience testing web services and APIs (REST, gRPC, JSON)
•Hands-on experience with performance and load testing using tools such as Locust or k6, including designing realistic workloads and interpreting results (latency percentiles, throughput, error rates)
•A skeptical, verification-first mindset toward AI output, with a clear sense of when to use deterministic assertions and when to use probabilistic evaluation
•Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes
Bonus Points
•End-to-end eval-driven development experience, including release gating, trajectory and tool-use evals, and calibrating LLM-as-judge against human review
•Prompt engineering and context or tool design for agents
•Integrating performance tests into CI/CD and using observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch)
•Background in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, malware analysis or sandboxing/detonation environments
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
•Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
The base salary range for this position in Canada is $120,000 - $170,000 CAD per year + variable/incentive compensation + equity + benefits. A candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location.
This is Canadian-based employment, and it is expected that all employees maintain legal entitlement to work in Canada. Applicants selected to move forward in the hiring process are subject to background checks, including but not limited to criminal record, credit, and/or reference checks.
