Program Manager III, Engineering (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CrowdStrike in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Program Manager III, Engineering, to lead complex, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, including cloud migrations and platform modernization. You will drive scheduling, scoping, and execution across geo-locations, ensuring dependencies and critical issues are resolved with ownership and strategic thinking.

This hybrid role requires 2-3 days on-site and strong collaboration with SRE, product managers, and engineering leaders.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship OR Green Card Holder
• 5+ years of technical program/project management experience in large-scale infrastructure or cloud environments
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Drive Strategic Infrastructure Programs
• Lead end-to-end execution of large-scale infrastructure initiatives, working directly with Engineering teams, SRE, Product Managers, and Engineering Managers to ensure timely delivery against the roadmap
• Translate business and engineering priorities into clear roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes
• Create and drive project schedules, working with engineering management on task assignments and managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks
• Establish and monitor key success metrics including delivery timelines, reliability improvements, cost savings, and team velocity
• Proactively identify and communicate risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and opportunities that impact infrastructure strategy
• Orchestrate Cross-Functional Execution with stakeholders across global units to identify and communicate project goals and tasks
• Partner with Leadership and Technical Teams to translate complex infrastructure concepts into clear business value propositions and drive decision-making
• Maintain executive presence while building technical credibility with engineering teams through deep understanding of infrastructure challenges
• Flexibly work across timezones to coordinate and follow up on work

Skills

Infrastructure program management

Cloud infrastructure

Cross-functional collaboration

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

Infrastructure Foundations provides the essential infrastructure that powers CrowdStrike. As a Program Manager III, Engineering , you'll be responsible for leading complex, cross-functional programs and partnering with engineering teams to deliver critical infrastructure initiatives. Your primary focus will entail driving the scheduling, scoping, and execution of large-scale infrastructure programs including cloud migrations, platform modernization, reliability improvements, and cost optimization. You'll work closely across functional teams and geo-locations to collaborate and ensure dependencies are well known, critical issues are identified and driven to resolution. This high-visibility role demands strong ownership, technical depth, strategic thinking, and executive communication.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.

What You’ll Do

• Drive Strategic Infrastructure Programs
• Lead end-to-end execution of large-scale infrastructure initiatives, working directly with Engineering teams, SRE, Product Managers, and Engineering Managers to ensure timely delivery against the roadmap
• Translate business and engineering priorities into clear roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes
• Create and drive project schedules, working with engineering management on task assignments and managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks, including understanding and managing dependencies within and across Product and Platform Groups
• Establish and monitor key success metrics including delivery timelines, reliability improvements, cost savings, and team velocity
• Proactively identify and communicate risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and opportunities that impact infrastructure strategy
• Orchestrate Cross-Functional Execution
  1. Collaborate with staff and management of multiple worldwide business units (including subject matter experts, product management, SRE teams, and platform engineering) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate their project involvement, project goals, expectations, and tasks
  2. Proactively track the status of project activities and ensure that schedules and priorities are being met
  3. Identify, track, and manage dependencies within and across teams; escalated critical blockers and drive resolution with urgency
  4. Ensure critical issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated if necessary
  5. Triage inbound requests, issues, and help coordinate operational escalations
  6. Ensure quality documentation, change management processes, and operational readiness for all infrastructure changes
• Partner with Leadership and Technical Teams
  1. Partner and facilitate directly with teams at all levels-from detailed technical discussions with engineers to strategic summations at the executive level
  2. Demonstrate ability to quickly learn and communicate technical context, aligning it with business objectives to help drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines
  3. Translate complex infrastructure concepts into clear business value propositions that drive decision-making
  4. Proactively manage daily/weekly project communication and status reporting
  5. Lead Scrum meetings and create and follow up on meeting minutes and action items
  6. Maintain executive presence while building technical credibility with engineering teams through deep understanding of infrastructure challenges
  7. Flexibly work across timezones to help coordinate and follow up on work

What You’ll Need

• US Citizenship OR Green Card Holder
• 5+ years of technical program/project management experience in large-scale infrastructure or cloud environments
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure