Director, Engineering, NG-SIEM Serverless Platform (Hybrid)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

Our mission is to make all of our customers' security-relevant data continuously available for automated detection and response, threat hunting, and other Falcon platform use cases. To enable this, the systems behind NG-SIEM (next-generation security information and event management) are growing to accommodate >100 PB of event and action data ingested every day, up to 10 years of retention, and dozens of millions of queries per hour across large sections of the data stored. As the Director of Engineering for the NG-SIEM Serverless Platform team, you will be responsible for building and operating the global- and region-level systems, automation, and infrastructure that will automatically manage the security industry's largest event data store and search service - all while offering a seamless ingest and search experience to customers, at any scale.

You will support a group of teams with highly skilled software dev/devops engineers who work on the regional control plane, the cellular data plane, and on the NG-SIEM provisioning system, as well as folks responsible for the NG-SIEM-wide SRE practice, cost efficiency analytics, and capacity forecasts. You will own the technical vision and direction of our platform, roadmap delivery, as well as meeting end-to-end SLOs. You will join a distributed team of high-ownership technical leaders who share a strong passion for our mission: to stop breaches. In this role, you will also get a chance to help on hard engineering problems that do not have well-defined solutions, and you will be expected to innovate in your space and keep our technology several steps ahead of the adversaries.

Candidates are required to be based in one of the following cities: Sunnyvale, CA; or Redmond, WA.

What You’ll Do:

• Uphold operational excellence for the region-level and cell-level serverless platform systems. Be a champion of secure, high-quality engineering, and drive teams towards architectures that strike right balance between availability, scalability, and cost;

• Lead by example on customer and product focus;

• Move our product mission forward: partner with multiple stakeholders to develop technical and product strategy and roadmap, and own the execution of that roadmap. Independently balance constraints around distributed system engineering, end-to-end system resilience, and hardware utilization;

• CrowdStrike is growing and you will be instrumental in the hiring, retention, mentorship, and growth of our world class engineering teams;

• Your impact is not bounded and you will be enabled to engage and collaborate with various teams and ensure our platform's success. You will work cross functionally with your peers in the product engineering organization, the platform engineering organization, as well as with field leaders in sales, customer success, and support;

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to bear when you are working with teams across the globe. You'll also travel a few times every year to meet with your teams and peers.

What You'll Need:

• 12+ years of experience operating, architecting, designing, upholding SLOs for, and developing distributed system platform software products/releases, preferably in a hyper-scale cloud environment, across all phases of the development lifecycle;

• 8+ years of experience managing teams of 6+ individual contributors reporting to you and delivering multiple major milestones of products, as well as 3+ years of managing several teams and managers that report to you. Demonstrated track record of building strong engineering teams and management teams;

• Successful track record of scaling up large SaaS-type offerings (e.g., to >500k CPU cores), while handling unit cost optimisation and capacity forecasting;

• History of positive impact on customer experience and business results;

• Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when operating services that span many components across several geographical regions;

• Shown capability to solve complex scenarios of integrating multiple systems and services that are operating 24/7;

• Proven ability to lead from the front during operational incidents;

• Experience working with remote teams across geographies and cultures;

• Ability to communicate and articulate crisply at all levels from executive staff to individual contributors.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in a similar role within a hyperscaler cloud company (AWS, Azure, GCP) or similar large-scale platform provider;

• Successful track record of scaling up large SaaS-type offerings to >3M CPU cores while increasing resilience and reducing unit costs;

• Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures and serverless computing paradigms;

• Experience with hybrid cloud environments;

• Exposure to/experience with cybersecurity and intelligence;

• Machine learning and data science familiarity and hands-on experience.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards

• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs

• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge

• Paid parental and adoption leaves

• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role

• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections

• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities

• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

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CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $195,000 - $290,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.

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