CrowdStrike
Director, Engineering - Cloud Detection Platform (Remote)
$195K–$290K
USA - Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering; 5+ years managing engineering teams; 2+ years managing managers.
About the job
Leads the strategy, teams, and operations for the cloud platform that executes detection rules and manages their safe delivery across CrowdStrike’s Falcon fleet.
What you'll do
- Set the multi-year platform strategy, architecture, and roadmap, including evolution toward a unified multi-engine detection architecture.
- Lead managers and senior engineers, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance, and succession.
- Own platform reliability, latency, and cost; guide SLOs, capacity and quota management, content deployment safeguards, and cross-team delivery.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams and 2+ years managing managers.
- Experience owning large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Experience managing operational excellence for customer-facing services, including SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and cost management.
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.
Nice to have
- Domain experience in security, detection engineering, SIEM, or threat intelligence.
- Experience with detection-as-code, content management systems, or rule authoring platforms.
Pay
$195,000 - $290,000 per year (base salary)
AI focus
Use AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes; AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows are a bonus.
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