Director, Engineering – Cloud Detection Platform

CrowdStrike

. Own the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Cloud Detection Platform .

Posted 10/5/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $195,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams and managing large-scale distributed systems, with a strong focus on operational excellence, strategic outcomes, and architectural judgment. Proven ability to integrate AI technologies and manage cross-team dependencies in a cloud detection environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Cloud Detection Platform LeadershipLarge-Scale Distributed Systems ManagementOperational Excellence for Customer-Facing ServicesAI Technology UtilizationSecurity and Detection Engineering Domain Expertise

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringArchitectural JudgmentCapacity PlanningCost ManagementDetection-as-CodeContent Management SystemsRule Authoring PlatformsIncident ResponseSLO DefinitionMulti-Tenant Capacity Management

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsLeadership Through AmbiguityCoaching and Performance Management

Industry Keywords

SIEMThreat IntelligenceDetection EngineeringData-Intensive PlatformsStreaming SystemsQuery/Search EnginesRule/Event Processing Pipelines

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Cloud Detection Platform
Lead and grow an organization of managers and senior engineers across multiple teams
Own the full talent lifecycle, including hiring, coaching, performance, and succession
Be accountable for reliability, latency, and cost of detection rule execution at fleet scale
Define SLOs and manage capacity, quotas, and COGS
Drive evolution toward a unified multi-engine detection architecture across scheduled, real-time, and retrospective execution
Partner with detection engineering, content, product management, and data platform teams to prioritize and deliver roadmap commitments
Build guardrails for safe detection-content shipping, including pre-release validation, staged deployment, rollback, exclusion management, and end-to-end testing
Anticipate and manage escalations and cross-team dependencies
Represent the platform in architecture and planning forums across the product organization
Drive annual operating plan and organizational planning for the area
Lead the Cloud Detection Platform that executes detection logic in the cloud at massive scale and supports detection engineers across endpoint, cloud, identity, and next-gen SIEM

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Track record of being fully accountable for strategic outcomes over one-to-two-year horizons
Strong architectural judgment and ability to engage in design reviews, influence technical direction, and make build/buy/consolidate decisions
Experience managing operational excellence for customer-facing services, including SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and cost management
Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, 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
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

Comp & perks

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
Health insurance
401k
Paid time off
Eligibility for bonuses
Equity grants