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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