Director, Cloud Detection Platform

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation & holidays

Parental leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Office culture

Great Place to Work

Job summary

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering for the Cloud Detection Platform. This leader will manage multiple teams delivering cloud detection engines and the supporting deployment pipelines, test environments, and observability.

You’ll own the roadmap, drive architectural evolution, and scale the platform to protect thousands of customers. You will lead managers and engineers, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and strong cross-team collaboration while shaping the

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Experience owning large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Accountable for strategic outcomes over 1–2 year horizons.
• Strong architectural judgment and direction setting.
• Experience with SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and cost management.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and cross-team dependencies.
• Excellent communication with executives, peers, and engineers.
• Experience applying AI to improve decision-making and workflows.
• Bonus: domain experience in security, SIEM, or threat intelligence.
• Experience with detection-as-code or content-management platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Cloud Detection Platform.
• Lead and grow an organization of managers and senior engineers across teams.
• Be accountable for reliability, latency, and cost of detection rule execution.
• Drive evolution toward a unified multi-engine detection architecture.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to prioritize and deliver roadmap commitments.
• Build guardrails for safe shipping of detection content: validation, staged deployment, rollback.
• Anticipate escalations and represent the platform in architecture discussions.
• Set annual operating plans and reflect CrowdStrike culture in team operations.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

Architectural leadership

Managing managers

Executive communication

AI in engineering

Detection platform experience

Security/Detections domain

Content management / detection-as-code

Tools

Content management systems

Rule authoring platforms

Detection-as-code

Multi-tenant capacity management

Job description

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering for the Cloud Detection Platform. This leader will manage multiple teams delivering cloud detection engines and the supporting deployment pipelines, test environments, and observability.

You’ll own the roadmap, drive architectural evolution, and scale the platform to protect thousands of customers. You will lead managers and engineers, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and strong cross-team collaboration while shaping the