Director, Engineering - Cloud Detection Platform (Remote)

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

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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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

CrowdStrike stops breaches, and detection content is how we do it. The Cloud Detection Platform team builds the engines that execute detection logic in the cloud at massive scale, along with the infrastructure that lets detection engineers author, test, deploy, and manage that content safely across the entire Falcon fleet. We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead this platform. You will manage multiple teams responsible for our cloud detection engines (scheduled, real-time, and retrospective execution across first- and third-party data) and the supporting infrastructure: content management and deployment pipelines, rule lifecycle and exception management, testing and validation environments, and the observability, quotas, and SLOs that keep rule execution reliable and cost-effective for customers. This is a high-leverage role at the center of CrowdStrike's detection strategy. Your platform serves detection engineers across endpoint, cloud, identity, and next-gen SIEM, and every improvement you ship translates directly into faster, higher-quality protection for thousands of customers.

What You'll Do

• Own the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Cloud Detection Platform, from detection engines to the content delivery infrastructure that supports them
• Lead and grow an organization of managers and senior engineers across multiple teams, owning the full talent lifecycle: hiring, coaching, performance, and succession
• Be accountable for the reliability, latency, and cost of detection rule execution at fleet scale, including SLO definition, capacity and quota management, and COGS
• Drive the evolution toward a unified multi-engine detection architecture, balancing scheduled search, real-time, and retrospective execution across engines
• Partner closely with detection engineering, content, product management, and data platform teams to prioritize and deliver against roadmap commitments
• Build the guardrails that make shipping detection content safe: pre-release validation, staged deployment, rollback, exclusion management, and end-to-end testing
• Anticipate and manage escalations and cross-team dependencies, and represent the platform in architecture and planning forums across the product organization
• Drive annual operating plan and organizational planning for your area, and reflect CrowdStrike's culture in how your teams operate

What You'll Need

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams and 2+ years managing managers
• Experience owning large-scale distributed systems in production, ideally data-intensive platforms such as query/search engines, streaming systems, or rule/event processing pipelines
• A track record of being fully accountable for strategic outcomes over one-to-two-year horizons, not just project delivery
• Strong architectural judgment: you can engage credibly in design reviews, influence technical direction, and make build/buy/consolidate calls
• Experience managing operational excellence for customer-facing services: SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and cost management
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, including organizational change, competing priorities, and cross-team dependencies
• Excellent communication skills with executives, peers, and engineers
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes
• Bonus Points Domain experience in security, detection engineering, SIEM, or threat intelligence
• Experience with detection-as-code, content management systems, or rule authoring platforms
• Experience with multi-tenant capacity management, fair-usage models, or COGS optimization at cloud scale
• Experience integrating AI-assisted or agentic workflows into engineering practice

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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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.

Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:12-04-2026

CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 to fix a fundamental problem: The sophisticated attacks that were forcing the world’s leading businesses into the headlines could not be solved with existing malware-based defenses. Founder George Kurtz realized that a brand new approach was needed — one that combines the most advanced endpoint protection with expert intelligence to pinpoint the adversaries perpetrating the attacks, not just the malware. There’s much more to the story of how Falcon has redefined endpoint protection but there’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.