Engineer III - Front End

About the Role:

As a Frontend Engineer III on our Design System team, you'll focus on building web components for our Design System and metadata-driven UI objects that power CrowdStrike's next-generation security platform. Our design system serves multiple engineering teams across the organization, powering critical security products that protect millions of users worldwide.

In this role, you'll report to an Engineering Manager and work closely with other frontend engineers, UX architects, product designers, and QA engineers to ensure accuracy, consistency, and portability across our platform. You'll be a technical leader and subject matter expert, driving design system excellence while mentoring team members and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization.

If you are passionate about building complex, data-driven user interfaces at enterprise scale with a focus on accessibility, developer experience, and design consistency, this role is perfect for you.

What You'll Do

Design System Development

• Design, build, and scale our design system by developing production-grade web components based on Figma specifications using the Lit framework, ensuring they meet enterprise-scale requirements

• Achieve and maintain near 100% test coverage using Playwright and modern testing frameworks, ensuring robust, bug-free components

• Bake in accessibility (a11y), comprehensive theming (including Dark/Light/High-Contrast modes), and localization/internationalization (i18n) from the ground up

• Optimize component performance and bundle size for production environments

• Maintain and extend design tokens (CSS variables) to ensure coded components remain in sync with Figma design specifications

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback to team members

• Drive technical decision-making for component architecture and implementation patterns

• Serve as a subject matter expert for engineering teams integrating with the design system

• Collaborate with UX architects, product designers, and QA engineers to ensure components meet our design and engineering standards

• Monitor integration support channels and provide timely technical assistance

Documentation & Developer Experience

• Create and maintain comprehensive component documentation, including usage guidelines, API specifications, and integration examples

• Proactively gather feedback from consuming teams and iterate on components to improve developer experience

• Document patterns and best practices to enhance the overall developer experience

• Provide short demos showcasing your work and new component capabilities

Process & Delivery

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and quality assurance

• Participate in scrum ceremonies, team planning sessions, and roadmap reviews to ensure team alignment on short and long-term goals

• Support multiple initiatives by providing essential UI components and UX patterns

• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on design system best practices

What You'll Need

Experience & Education

• 5+ years of professional frontend engineering experience

• 2+ years of experience building or contributing to design systems at scale

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience

Technical Expertise

• Expert knowledge of modern web standards and frontend engineering tools (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Components, TypeScript, Node/NPM)

• Hands-on experience building user-centric and scalable UI frameworks and design systems

• Experience with REST APIs and GraphQL

• Strong understanding of responsive design principles and implementation

• Experience with Playwright or similar modern testing frameworks

• Hands-on experience with design tokens and CSS-in-JS solutions

• Working knowledge of Figma or similar design tools

• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Accessibility & Internationalization

• Deep experience with Accessibility (a11y) best practices, tools, and techniques including:

  • Keyboard navigation compatibility

  • Screen reader support

  • WCAG 2.2 AA compliance

• Proven experience with localization and internationalization (i18n) implementation

Quality & DevOps

• Track record of achieving and maintaining high test coverage standards

• Knowledge of CI/CD best practices and tools for improving and maintaining performance and code quality

• Experience with monorepo architectures and tooling (Nx, Turborepo, or similar)

Design System Governance

• Experience with design system governance, including establishing and enforcing component standards and patterns

• Track record of shipping production-grade design systems used by multiple teams

• Experience with Storybook or similar component documentation tools

Soft Skills & Collaboration

• Proven ability to collaborate with UX architects, product designers, and engineering teams across multiple time zones

• Strong facilitation skills for design and technical discussions

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Comfortable presenting demos and technical documentation to a broad range of stakeholders

• Advocate for UX consistency, accessibility, and empathy for the end user

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React/Next.js, Vue, or Ember

• Experience with AgGrid or similar data grid libraries

• Experience building UIs for data-intensive security or cybersecurity products

• Understanding of security best practices in frontend development

• Experience working with globally distributed teams

• Contributions to open-source design systems or component libraries

• Experience with design system migration projects

• Comfortable leveraging AI tools (Claude, Copilot, etc.) to accelerate development and improve productivity

How You'll Demonstrate CrowdStrike Leadership Principles

Customer Focus

• Build components with internal engineering teams and end users in mind

• Treat developers as valued customers deserving of an excellent experience

• Ensure consistent experiences through accessibility and thoughtful design

Collaborates

• Partner with designers, engineers, and stakeholders across the organization

• Build strong working relationships with cross-functional teams

• Support and unblock teams integrating with the design system

Ensures Accountability

• Own component quality through comprehensive testing and documentation

• Follow through on commitments and hold yourself to high standards

• Establish clear quality metrics and consistently deliver against them

Cultivates Innovation

• Drive improvements in design system architecture and developer experience

• Introduce new approaches to component development and testing

• Stay current with industry trends and bring fresh ideas to the team

Communicates Effectively

• Provide clear technical guidance through documentation and demos

• Adapt communication style for different audiences (technical and non-technical)

• Actively listen and incorporate feedback from stakeholders

Demonstrates Self-Awareness

• Proactively seek feedback on your work and approach

• Reflect on team processes and suggest improvements

• Openly discuss challenges and learn from experiences