Red Team Technical Operations Engineer; Remote

Crowd Strike, Inc.

Full time

R27375

As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. 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 Crowd Strike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward.

We're also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every Crowd Striker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We're always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers 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.

The Red Team Tech Ops Engineer will join a non-billable R&D team dedicated to supporting Professional Services Red Team activities in client networks that simulate known threat actors. This Red Team helps Crowd Strike customers identify and reduce gaps in their ability to deter malicious activity. We're looking for an engineer that will support the team by reducing operational uncertainty against defensive products, among other tasks that improve the team's strategic and tactical capabilities.

• Build and maintain product testing systems that generate data for a decision support system.
• Actively use systems to provide bespoke tactical intelligence to operators on engagements.
• Respond to regular product updates to ensure capabilities are functional and resilient.
• Development tasks that are both malware-oriented and platform-oriented.
• Programming for Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms (user- and kernel-mode).
• Programming related to event streaming, telemetry post-processing, and build engineering.
• Provide development and infrastructure support to improve overall offensive capabilities.
• Review analytics data from sensors to guide the development of offensive tradecraft.
• Develop initial access and post-exploitation capabilities (some evasive, some noisy).
• Contribute to capabilities to enhance operator decision making.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve workflows and processes.
• Document completed development projects for operational use.
• Share responsibilities on administration and infrastructure.

• Reverse engineering skills and mindset in both vulnerability research and malware analysis.
• Forward engineering skills in languages such as C++, C#, and Python.
• Systems programming background in at least Windows + aptitude to learn Linux and macOS.
• Demonstrable understanding of EDR internals and other telemetry-based technologies.
• Demonstrable familiarity with using the OODA loop concept to subvert complex systems.
• Prior experience in goal-oriented red team operations and penetration testing phases.
• Prior experience in UX/UI elements of projects to improve workflows and adoption.
• Security community participation (conference speaker or tool contributor) is a plus.
• Experience with developing custom C2 frameworks or offensive security tooling is a plus.
• Prior experience with event streaming, web development, and data analysis is a plus.
• Familiarity with the following is a plus:
  Kafka, FastAPI, Neo4j, Log Scale, Docker, Jenkins.

• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills in English.
• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience (some skills will be learned on the job).
• Ability to recognize and demonstrate that stealth is relative.
• Ability to factor human cognition when developing technical bypasses (e.g. reflexive control, IPb).
• Ability to maintain discretion related to sensitive work (both internally and externally).
• Ability to be receptive to peer review and conform to project-specific conventions.
• Ability to explain topics you are familiar with at different abstraction levels.
• Ability to manage development projects from conception to ongoing maintenance.
• Ability to handle high…