Director of Engineering, Sensor Detection Platform

🕒 3 days ago

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $195k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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CrowdStrike

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2011

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-based security services to stop breaches. It is recognized as a leader in endpoint protection, identity and cloud security, and managed detection and response. CrowdStrike's platform, Falcon, integrates artificial intelligence to offer real-time visibility, detection, and protection against sophisticated cyber threats. The company is lauded for its effectiveness in securing networks and data, making it a trusted partner for businesses worldwide.

📋 Description

• Own the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for on-sensor detection, including execution engines, template and pattern frameworks, process classification, and content delivery infrastructure • Lead and grow an organization of managers and senior engineers across multiple teams • Own hiring, coaching, performance, and succession across the organization • Be accountable for detection efficacy and endpoint footprint, including CPU, memory, and I/O costs • Establish performance budgets, regression gates, and fleet health SLOs • Ensure safe delivery of detection content through pre-release validation, staged channel-file deployment, rollback, exclusion management, and end-to-end testing across OS platforms and sensor versions • Drive on-sensor intelligence, including process classification for AI and agentic workloads and runtime foundations for on-sensor model inference • Partner with detection content engineering, core sensor, Cloud Detection Platform, and product management on hybrid sensor/cloud detection architecture • Reduce support escalation volume, maintain trustworthy test infrastructure, and streamline release operations • Manage escalations and cross-team dependencies • Represent the platform in architecture and planning forums across the product organization • Drive annual operating plan and organizational planning for the area • Lead a platform whose detection engines execute on hundreds of millions of endpoints in real time

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience • 5+ years managing engineering teams • 2+ years managing managers • Deep endpoint experience, including EDR/endpoint security agents • Knowledge of OS internals across Windows, macOS, and Linux • Experience with performance and compatibility discipline for endpoint software • Experience safely delivering software and content updates to very large distributed fleets • Track record of accountability for strategic outcomes over one-to-two-year horizons • Strong architectural judgment, including efficacy-versus-footprint tradeoffs and build/buy/consolidate decisions • Experience managing incident response, release safety, fleet health monitoring, and escalation management • Ability to lead through ambiguity, organizational change, competing priorities, and cross-team dependencies • Excellent communication skills with executives, peers, and engineers • Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes • Bonus: Domain experience in detection engineering, malware analysis, or threat intelligence • Bonus: Experience with MITRE ATT&CK evaluations • Bonus: Experience with detection-as-code, content management systems, or rule/template authoring platforms • Bonus: Experience with on-device ML, model runtimes, inference on heterogeneous hardware, or resource-constrained model deployment • Bonus: Experience integrating AI-assisted or agentic workflows into engineering practice

🏖️ 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 • Bonuses • Equity grants • Health insurance • 401k • Paid time off