Director, Engineering – Cloud Detection Platform

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $195k - $290k / year

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CrowdStrike

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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 the Cloud Detection Platform • Lead and grow an organization of managers and senior engineers across multiple teams • Own the full talent lifecycle, including hiring, coaching, performance, and succession • Be accountable for reliability, latency, and cost of detection rule execution at fleet scale • Define SLOs and manage capacity, quotas, and COGS • Drive evolution toward a unified multi-engine detection architecture across scheduled, real-time, and retrospective execution • Partner with detection engineering, content, product management, and data platform teams to prioritize and deliver roadmap commitments • Build guardrails for safe detection-content shipping, including pre-release validation, staged deployment, rollback, exclusion management, and end-to-end testing • Anticipate and 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 the Cloud Detection Platform that executes detection logic in the cloud at massive scale and supports detection engineers across endpoint, cloud, identity, and next-gen SIEM

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience • 5+ years managing engineering teams • 2+ years managing managers • Experience owning large-scale distributed systems in production, ideally data-intensive platforms such as query/search engines, streaming systems, or rule/event processing pipelines • Track record of being fully accountable for strategic outcomes over one-to-two-year horizons • Strong architectural judgment and ability to engage in design reviews, influence technical direction, and make build/buy/consolidate decisions • Experience managing operational excellence for customer-facing services, including SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and cost management • Demonstrated 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 • Domain experience in security, detection engineering, SIEM, or threat intelligence • Experience with detection-as-code, content management systems, or rule authoring platforms • Experience with multi-tenant capacity management, fair-usage models, or COGS optimization at cloud scale • 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 • Health insurance • 401k • Paid time off • Eligibility for bonuses • Equity grants