Senior Manager of Engineering, CrowdStrike

• We're looking for a manager with world-class experience in leading streaming search teams, solid understanding of computer science fundamentals around multithreading, memory, and data structures, and the ability to guide a team working on a distributed system at CrowdStrike scale
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, preferably leading teams building distributed systems
• Strong technical background with experience designing, building, and operating scalable streaming systems
• Deep understanding of distributed system architecture and performance optimization
• Ability to work with geographically distributed team
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex technical concepts to various audiences
• Strategic thinking and ability to navigate ambiguity in large, open-ended problem spaces
• Track record of successfully delivering complex technical projects
• Strong people management skills with a focus on team development and mentorship
• Experience with strongly-typed, object-oriented languages (e.g., C++, Java, C#, or similar)
• Proficiency with Unix/Linux environments Experience with Git or similar version control workflows

Desirable

• This is a Senior Manager position leading our Streaming Search team
• You'll be leading a team that designs and builds a high-throughput system to partition, filter, query, and join streaming data at the scale of over three trillion events per day
• Customers of this system rely on your team's work to generate everything from high-quality training data for large-scale machine learning models to actionable leads that threat hunters can use to track down malicious actors—all to fulfill our core mission of stopping breaches
• You'll be managing an agile, distributed team of collaborative engineers who work on all aspects of the system from cloud and datacenter architecture down to low-level performance tuning of event handling and everything in between
• If you enjoy building and leading high-performing teams, making strategic technical decisions, and tackling hard problems that don't have well-defined solutions, then you'll fit right in
• Our team builds a large distributed system primarily written in C++ to achieve high performance
• While technical expertise is valuable, your primary focus will be on team leadership, strategic direction, and ensuring your engineers have what they need to succeed
• As a leader, you'll need to foster a technically fearless environment where your team works together to find the best solution for the task at hand
• Lead and develop a team of engineers working on our Streaming Search and Analytics Platform
• Shape the strategic vision for the platform's next phase of growth, focusing on query experimentation, efficient data storage, performance optimization, and streaming query language development
• Drive technical excellence while fostering a collaborative, innovative team culture
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align team priorities with company objectives
• Make critical architectural decisions that balance technical excellence with business needs
• Mentor and grow engineering talent within your team
• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of a streaming platform that processes petabytes of data
• Lead technical reviews of products and guide the development of new features and stability enhancements
• Drive continuous improvement in service efficiency to delight our customers
• Spearhead research and implementation of new ways for both internal stakeholders and customers to query their data efficiently

• Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:09-02-2025