About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike stands as a global leader in cybersecurity, safeguarding people, processes, and technologies that power modern organizations. Since 2011, our unwavering mission has been to stop breaches using the world's most advanced AI-native Falcon platform. We process nearly 3 trillion events daily, with traffic growing exponentially, serving customers across all industries who rely on us to keep businesses running, communities safe, and lives moving forward. Our remote-first culture empowers every CrowdStriker with flexibility and autonomy to own their careers, fostering limitless passion, relentless innovation, and fanatical commitment to customers, community, and each other.

Role Overview

As Director of Engineering for the NG-SIEM Serverless Platform (Hybrid) in Sunnyvale, California, you'll spearhead the systems managing the security industry's largest event data store and search service. NG-SIEM handles over 100 PB of data daily, with up to 10 years retention and millions of queries per hour. You'll build and operate global and regional infrastructure for seamless ingest and search at any scale, supporting teams on control planes, data planes, provisioning, SRE, cost analytics, and capacity forecasting. Own the technical vision, roadmap, and SLOs in a distributed team passionate about stopping breaches through innovation on unsolved engineering challenges.

Key Impact Areas

This role demands balancing distributed systems resilience, hardware utilization, and customer focus while scaling to unprecedented levels. Candidates must be based in Sunnyvale, CA, or Redmond, WA, with hybrid flexibility aligning to our remote-first ethos.

Key Responsibilities

Drive operational excellence for region- and cell-level serverless systems. Champion secure, high-quality engineering, architecting for availability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Lead customer- and product-focused initiatives, partnering on strategy and roadmap execution. Independently navigate constraints in distributed engineering and resilience. Play a pivotal role in hiring, retention, mentorship, and growth of elite engineering teams. Collaborate cross-functionally with product, platform engineering, sales, customer success, and support. Excel in global communication, with occasional travel to unite teams.

Qualifications & Requirements

Bring 12+ years operating, architecting, and developing hyper-scale distributed platforms in cloud environments across full development lifecycles. Demonstrate 8+ years managing 6+ individual contributors and 3+ years leading managers, with proven team-building success. Showcase scaling SaaS offerings to over 500k CPU cores, optimizing unit costs and forecasting capacity. Highlight operational excellence in multi-region services, positive customer impact, and business results. Solve complex, ambiguous scenarios innovatively to stay ahead of adversaries. Excellent communication for global collaboration required.

Benefits & Perks

Earn a disclosed salary of $195,000 - $290,000 USD annually, with potential upside to $319,000 reflecting performance and market. Enjoy hybrid flexibility in Sunnyvale's vibrant tech hub, comprehensive health benefits, and remote-first perks. Access unlimited PTO, stock options, and wellness programs. Benefit from a mission-driven environment with autonomy, innovation resources, and community impact opportunities. Travel a few times yearly to connect with distributed teams enhances collaboration.

Career Growth

CrowdStrike invests in your growth through mentorship, high-ownership leadership, and cross-functional exposure. As we scale rapidly, this Director role offers unbounded impact, engaging with peers in product and platform orgs. Develop management teams, innovate on Falcon platform extensions, and advance to VP-level influence. Our culture ensures every CrowdStriker owns their trajectory, with resources for technical depth and leadership breadth in cybersecurity's forefront.

Why Join CrowdStrike

Join a company redefining cybersecurity with the Falcon platform's AI-native power, processing trillions of events to preempt breaches. Thrive in a remote-first culture valuing flexibility, autonomy, and fanatic customer commitment. Work on NG-SIEM's cutting-edge serverless tech handling petabyte-scale data, outpacing adversaries. Contribute to a mission that protects global enterprises, with Sunnyvale's innovation ecosystem as your base. Be part of high-impact teams driving business results and customer trust worldwide.

Role FAQs

Q: What is the work arrangement? Hybrid in Sunnyvale, CA (or Redmond, WA), aligning with remote-first principles.
Q: What salary range is offered? $195,000 - $290,000 USD base, up to $319,000 with upside.
Q: What experience is essential? 12+ years in hyper-scale distributed systems; 8+ years people management.
Q: How does this role fit CrowdStrike's mission? Directly advances Falcon platform's data availability for detection, hunting, and response.
Q: Is travel required? A few times yearly for team and peer meetings.
Q: Why NG-SIEM Serverless Platform? Powers the largest event data store, innovating at scale to stop breaches.