CrowdStrike
Sr. Engineering Manager, Platform API - Sensor Foundations (Hybrid)
$160K–$250K
USA - New York, NY +3 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- USA - New York, NY
USA - Austin, TX
USA - Sunnyvale, CA
USA - Redmond, WA - Experience
- No specific number of years stated; proven engineering management and software development experience required.
About the job
Leads the Platform API team building cross-platform sensor foundations and an on-device ML inference runtime for CrowdStrike Falcon.
What you'll do
- Set the technical roadmap and architectural direction for APIs and abstractions across Windows, Linux, and macOS, including the ML inference runtime.
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers; guide team delivery, quality, resourcing, and operational support.
- Drive API adoption, testing, validation, and cross-functional collaboration across the sensor organization.
What they ask for
- Experience managing software engineering teams, grounded in software development.
- Hands-on low-level systems expertise in C and/or C++ in user-mode and kernel-mode environments.
- Strong API and interface design expertise, including ABI stability and backward compatibility.
- Cross-platform experience across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Nice to have
- Background in endpoint security, EDR, kernel-level software, or sensor platform engineering.
- Experience building on-device ML inference infrastructure or hardware-accelerated inference.
Pay
$160,000 - $250,000 per year (USD, base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Windows, Linux, macOS, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, Core ML
AI focus
Lead development of a centralized on-sensor ML inference runtime, including its C API, isolated execution model, hardware-accelerated backends, and production integrations; use AI technologies to enhance decision-making and workflows.
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