Director, Cloud Detection Engineering — Remote

Praxy; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness programs

Vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Director of Engineering for the Cloud Detection Platform. You will own the multi-year strategy, drive an architectural roadmap, and lead several teams ensuring reliable, cost-efficient detection content at scale across the Falcon fleet.

You will manage managers and engineers, collaborate with product, data, and content teams, and implement guardrails for safe deployment and testing of detection rules.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years managing engineering teams.
• 2+ years managing managers.
• Experience owning large-scale distributed systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Cloud Detection Platform.
• Lead and grow an organization of managers and senior engineers.
• Be accountable for reliability, latency, and cost of detection rule execution at fleet scale.
• Drive evolution toward a unified multi-engine detection architecture.
• Partner with detection engineering, content, product management, and data platform teams to prioritize and deliver roadmaps.
• Build guardrails for safe shipping of detection content: pre-release validation, staged deployment, rollback, exclusion management, testing.
• Anticipate escalations and manage cross-team dependencies; represent the platform in architecture discussions.
• Drive annual operating plan and organizational planning for the area.

Skills

Distributed systems

People management

Architectural judgment

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Director of Engineering for the Cloud Detection Platform. You will own the multi-year strategy, drive an architectural roadmap, and lead several teams ensuring reliable, cost-efficient detection content at scale across the Falcon fleet.

You will manage managers and engineers, collaborate with product, data, and content teams, and implement guardrails for safe deployment and testing of detection rules.