Drimva

CrowdStrike

Software Engineering Manager-Continuous Identity

$140K–$215K

USA - Sunnyvale, CA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026

Experience
10+ years software development experience with 2+ years leading backend cloud engineering teams.

About the job

Leads and contributes to the backend engineering team building scalable, real-time identity security and enforcement systems that help prevent identity-based attacks.

What you'll do

  • Lead, hire, mentor, and develop a backend engineering team while managing delivery and performance.
  • Guide architecture and hands-on development of low-latency distributed systems, spending approximately 20–30% of time prototyping and coding.
  • Establish engineering practices and oversee reliability, SLOs, incident response, and cross-functional planning.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years leading backend cloud engineering teams.
  • Hands-on coding ability in Go, Python, or Java; Go preferred.
  • Proven success building and scaling cloud-native microservices and distributed systems.
  • Experience operating production services in cloud environments, including on-call and incident response.

Nice to have

  • Background in cybersecurity, Zero Trust, ITDR, PAM, identity protocols, or identity-based threat mitigation.
  • Experience with Shared Signals Framework, non-human identities, graph databases, stream processing, or ML-based behavioral analytics.

Pay

$140,000 - $215,000 per year (base salary)

Tools

Go, Python, Java, REST/gRPC, K8s, Kafka, AWS, GCP

AI focus

Uses AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes; product security covers human, non-human, and AI identities.

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First seen Oct 19, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)