Director, Engineering - Cloud Detection Platform (Remote)

CrowdStrike•USA CA Remote, CA

3d•$195,000 - $290,000•Remote

About The Position

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting organizations with an advanced AI-native platform. The Cloud Detection Platform team builds the core engines that execute detection logic in the cloud at massive scale. This includes the infrastructure for detection engineers to author, test, deploy, and manage detection content safely across the entire Falcon fleet. The team works on large-scale distributed systems, processing trillions of events daily, and is crucial for providing faster, higher-quality protection to customers across various industries. The company emphasizes a mission-driven approach, AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation, fostering a culture of flexibility and autonomy.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years managing engineering teams
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
Strong architectural judgment: ability to 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Own the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Cloud Detection Platform, from detection engines to the content delivery infrastructure.
Lead and grow an organization of managers and senior engineers across multiple teams, managing the full talent lifecycle.
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.
Partner closely with detection engineering, content, product management, and data platform teams to prioritize and deliver against roadmap commitments.
Build guardrails for safe detection content shipping: 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.
Drive annual operating plan and organizational planning for the area, reflecting CrowdStrike's culture in team operations.

Benefits

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
Health insurance
401k
Paid time off