Engineering Manager, CrowdStrike
UI Developer Experience, Releases, Observability, Support
+ Equity awards
AI-native cybersecurity platform
Open for applications
AI-native cybersecurity platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity awards
1001+ employees
Company mission
CrowdStrike is on a mission to stop breaches. Its purpose is to provide safety and security to some of the world’s largest, most influential companies and, by extension, the billions of people around the world who use their services.
Role
Who you are
- At CrowdStrike, we believe all our Engineering Managers should have a strong coding background
- You should be comfortable reviewing code, and you will be expected to understand and contribute to architectural discussions
- Experience managing a cadenced release process: RC creation, validation, approval, release
- Experience managing a support-focused process with a regular stream of incoming requests from multiple teams
- Experience with observability and DORA metrics, including dashboards
- Strong engineering track-record focusing on front-end development & technologies. (JS/TS/CSS/HTML) and modern frameworks and approaches
- Experience with front end frameworks such as React, Next.js, Vue and Ember
- A good understanding of Cloud Technologies and end to end delivery of data intensive SaaS products
- A good understanding of CI/CD pipeline configuration using tools such as Jenkins
- Familiarity with client-side build processes and tools (e.g. Ember CLI, Webpack, etc)
- Experience writing command-line scripts using Node.js
- Experience with testing frameworks, tools and methodologies such as QUnit or Mocha
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services
- Comfortable with Git or similar version control systems and workflows
- A desire to work closely with others to deliver quality software and solve problems
- Strong communication skills in both verbal and written formats
- Comfortable providing presentations and recommendations to stakeholder management
- Being an advocate in UX consistency, accessibility and empathy for the end user
- Experience mentoring & supporting people and teams with empathy & professionalism
- Experience working with Product Managers and UX Designers for requirement analysis and driving the engineering team to come up with solution approach and design for delivering the requirements
- Experience planning, tracking, delivering and managing multiple projects
- Experience in remote-first environments and global teams
What the job involves
- The CrowdStrike UI Developer Experience team (UIDX) is responsible for improving developer productivity by reducing friction through tools and processes
- We currently support over 250 UI engineers who build and maintain our internal and external software products
- These products are leveraged by our customers 24/7 to protect their systems from the world's most sophisticated cybersecurity adversaries
- UIDX provides the systems, infrastructure, and tooling that enables UI engineers to build, test, deploy, and activate features in our applications, including:
- Tools and processes for dealing with errors or incidents
- Build processes, both local and in Continuous Integration (CI)
- Tools for troubleshooting and debugging production systems
- Local development: setup, running, making changes to code
- Monitoring and maintaining speed and stability of automated changes through CI pipelines
- Enabling UI engineering teams to provide sufficient automated test coverage
- Facilitating cross-team collaboration during development - e.g. code dependencies and shared libraries
- Ease of deployment, activation, rollback, and deactivation of features
- Configuration and administration of UI systems - e.g. code repositories, build pipelines, error reporting, etc
- Documentation and training for all the above
- As a member of the UIDX team, you will be part of a culture that promotes a "safe space" for your continued career growth
- The UIDX team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on supporting releases, observability, and cross-team technical support of our UI engineering teams
- As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for the workload management, wellbeing, and professional growth of your team
- You’ll help foster an open and collaborative environment and support systems to help your team succeed
- Lead a team of engineers within these areas of focus:
- Release management: Preparing, coordinating, and executing scheduled releases for UI Engineering teams
- Observability: UI build metrics and dashboards for DORA, code coverage, build performance and stability, error detection (e.g. Sentry)
- Engineering Support: Provide daily support for UI Engineering teams with DX-related issues (builds, tooling, PRs, documentation, training, etc.)
- Manage team workload, project resourcing & coordination in a fast-paced, highly distributed environment
- Support wellbeing of team members - providing support & guidance focused primarily on resourcing, progress, and soft skills
- Gather feedback from others, provide coaching as needed & in collaboration with senior engineers to advance team member skill sets
- Build a team - leading and coordinating recruitment process from initial contact to offer
- Maintain visibility into the product roadmap and share that information back to other managers and team members
- Participate in team activities, such as roadmap planning, to prioritize projects on the roadmap based on availability of humans to do the work and business objectives that need to be met
Our take
Since CrowdStrike was founded by a trio of former McAfee executives in 2011, it’s grown into a thousands-strong, NASDAQ-listed company. With customers including Verizon, Deloitte, and Goldman Sachs, it’s considered one of the world’s top enterprise cybersecurity vendors along with the likes of Cisco, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks.
One of the reasons behind CrowdStrike's continued success is its ability to keep pace with the evolving tech market, for instance with its Generative AI security analyst that leverages recent developments in AI. Although not immune to the slowdown of the global economy, the company's modular design has given it the upper hand, allowing clients to consolidate their security spend with CrowdStrike instead of selecting packages from multiple vendors at a higher overall cost.
With long-term demand for cybersecurity products growing, and its reputation as strong as ever, CrowdStrike shows no signs of slowing down. It has partnered with Ignition Technology to double down on its UK presence, and continues to be a voice in the wider market through its "Falcon Fund" investment vehicle and position as a founding member of NIST's Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC).
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2018
$200m
SERIES E
Oct 2017
$25m
SERIES D
Total funding: $479.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Comprehensive Health Benefits
- Parental & Fertility Assistance
- Remote-first culture
- Health & Wellness Programs
- Professional Development
- Executive Coaching & Mentorship
- Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration
- Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
Company values
- Automony
- Flexibility
- Trust
Company HQ
Heritage District, Sunnyvale, CA
Articles
Leadership
George Kurtz
(President & CEO)Founded security software company Foundstone in 1999, operating as CEO until McAfee's $90m acquisition in 2004. Spent the next seven years at McAfee in a number of executive roles including SVP of Enterprise and CTO.
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