CrowdStrike
Engineering Manager, SDET - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) (Hybrid)
$140K–$215K
USA - Sunnyvale, CA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in software development/SDET roles, with at least 3+ years in an engineering management role leading SDET or quality engineering teams.
- Visa sponsorship
- CrowdStrike participates in the E-Verify program.
About the job
Leads a hands-on SDET team responsible for test strategy, automation, and end-to-end quality of AI Detection and Response cloud services and UI applications.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, hire, and develop SDETs while building test frameworks and contributing code.
- Own functional, performance, contract, and chaos/resilience testing, including CI/CD quality gates and production issue investigation.
- Partner across engineering and product teams to improve quality standards, service operations, and testing workflows using AI tools.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in software development/SDET roles, including at least 3+ years in engineering management leading SDET or quality engineering teams.
- Hands-on coding expertise in at least one of Golang, Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience building testing frameworks for Cloud SaaS or similar SOA at scale, and defining testing strategy.
- Experience with cloud distributed systems, cloud services, CI/CD, containerized environments, and testing REST and/or gRPC APIs.
Nice to have
- Cybersecurity or security-focused product experience; understanding of AI/ML security challenges.
- Experience with chaos engineering, performance testing at scale, UI automation, or AI/agentic testing tools.
Pay
USD $140,000 - $215,000 per year base salary
Tools
Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
AI focus
Uses AI technologies and agentic workflows to improve testing automation and efficiency; team validates AI security services and data.
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