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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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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.\nAbout The Role:\nCrowdStrike Falcon is a two-component security product. One component is the \"Sensor\" - a lightweight agent installed on endpoint systems that observes system activity, recognizes malicious behavior, provides on-box prevention capability, and sends telemetry to the Falcon cloud. The cloud component aggregates Sensor telemetry across each customer's network, correlates malicious behavior across machines, and presents security teams with a prioritized summary of the threats detected in their environments.\nThe Falcon Sensor runs on tens of millions of endpoints worldwide, across Windows, macOS and Linux, in both user mode and kernel mode. Engineering software at that depth and that scale is among the hardest problems in the industry, and CrowdStrike holds the Sensor to an exceptionally high standard of quality, performance and engineering rigor. Sustaining that standard requires a team with true mastery of what software does at runtime, at the lowest levels of the stack.\nThat team is Sensor Performance and Reliability - CrowdStrike's team of debug engineers. Deep runtime analysis is our craft: postmortem memory dump analysis, disassembly and reverse engineering, and source-level analysis, used to explain with precision and evidence how low-level code behaves on real systems. It is one of the most technically demanding specialties in systems engineering, and very few organizations invest in it as a discipline in its own right. We do, because at our scale the answer to \"what exactly happened, and why?\" has to be exact rather than approximate.\nOur mandate goes further than answering that question well. We're chartered to turn what we learn from deep analysis into durable engineering improvements - strengthening diagnostics, tooling, validation coverage and development practices so that lessons generalize far beyond the investigation that produced them, and so that the next analysis is faster than the last. Our work makes the product stronger, and it raises the engineering capability of every team we work with.\nWe are hiring an entry-level engineer to join us in that mission. We do not expect you to arrive with deep Windows internals, assembly, or reverse engineering experience.Those are skills we will teach you, and you will learn them from engineers who operate at the top of this field. What we are looking for is a strong programmer with excellent problem-solving instincts and genuine curiosity about how computers actually work underneath the abstractions - someone who is drawn to a hard, ambiguous problem rather than put off by it. If you are the kind of person who cannot leave a mystery alone until you understand it completely, this is an unusually good place to build a career.\nLocation:\nThis is a hybrid role based out of one of the posted locations: Redmond, WAor Sunnyvale, CA, with a combination of in-office and remote work.\nWhat You'll Do:\nAnalyze the runtime behavior of complex low-level software across user mode and kernel mode on Windows, primarily through postmortem memory dump analysis in WinDbg.\n\nWork from raw memory, register state and disassembly to a precise, evidence-backed account of what executing code did and why - and hold yourself to a high evidentiary bar in reaching it.\n\nCorrelate your analysis with source code, applying reverse engineering and disassembly techniques where symbols, source or context are incomplete.\n\nDrive investigations to accurate, well-reasoned conclusions rather than plausible-sounding ones, and communicate confidence and uncertainty honestly.\n\nPartner with Sensor development teams to translate your findings into concrete, well-designed engineering improvements.\n\nGeneralize from individual investigations: recognize patterns, and champion improvements to tooling, diagnostics, automated validation and engineering practice that raise the reliability bar broadly rather than locally.\n\nBuild and improve the tooling, automation and analysis techniques that make deep runtime analysis faster, more repeatable and more accessible - for our team and for Sensor engineers across the company.\n\nWrite clearly and precisely for engineering, quality and leadership audiences. A first-rate technical analysis is only as valuable as its reader's ability to act on it.\n\nCollaborate with engineering teams across multiple locations and timezones, including Sensor platform, detection and OS-specialist teams.\n\nWhat You'll Need:\nBS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nSolid working knowledge of C and C++, and the ability to read and reason about code you did not write.\n\nGood foundational knowledge of data structures and algorithms.\n\nStrong problem-solving and analytical skills, and comfort working with incomplete information - much of this work involves reconstructing runtime behavior from partial evidence.\n\nGenuine curiosity about systems fundamentals: operating system internals, computer architecture, memory management, concurrency, compilers and assembly. You should wantto learn these deeply.\n\nPersistence and intellectual honesty: the willingness to keep digging until you actually know the answer, and to say clearly when you don't yet.\n\nGood written and verbal communication skills.\n\nAbility to take ownership of your work and follow it through to resolution.\n\nAbility to communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a globally distributed team.\n\nProven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.\n\nBonus Points:\nAny exposure to debugging tools and techniques - WinDbg, GDB, LLDB, or similar - including as a hobby, in coursework, or in CTFs.\n\nCoursework, internships, or personal projects involving operating system internals, kernel or driver development, systems programming, or computer architecture.\n\nFamiliarity with x86-64 or ARM64 assembly and the ability to read disassembly.\n\nExposure to reverse engineering, malware analysis, or vulnerability research.\n\nExperience with Windows internals specifically (processes, threads, virtual memory, synchronization, the Windows kernel and driver model).\n\nScripting experience, particularly Python, for automation and analysis tooling.\n\nInterest in or experience with the security landscape.\n\nBenefits of Working at CrowdStrike:\nMarket leader in compensation and equity awards\n\nComprehensive physical and mental wellness programs\n\nCompetitive vacation and holidays for recharge\n\nPaid parental and adoption leaves\n\nProfessional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role\n\nEmployee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections\n\nVibrant office culture with world class amenities\n\nGreat Place to Work Certified™ across the globe\n\nCrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.\nCrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.\nIf you need assistance accessing or reviewing the information on this website or need help submitting an application for employment or requesting an accommodation, please contact us at  for further assistance.\nFind out more about your rights as an applicant.\nCrowdStrike participates in the E-Verify program.\nNotice of E-Verify Participation\nRight to Work\nCrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. 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