CrowdStrike · 1 week ago
Director, Engineering, NG-SIEM Serverless Platform (Remote)
CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity focused on stopping breaches and redefining modern security with an advanced AI-native platform. The Director of Engineering for the NG-SIEM Serverless Platform will be responsible for building and operating large-scale systems that manage security data, ensuring operational excellence while leading a team of skilled engineers. The role involves collaboration across various teams to drive the technical vision and roadmap of the platform.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesCloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork Security
Responsibilities
Uphold operational excellence for the region-level and cell-level serverless platform systems. Be a champion of secure, high-quality engineering, and drive teams towards architectures that strike right balance between availability, scalability, and cost
Lead by example on customer and product focus
Move our product mission forward: partner with multiple stakeholders to develop technical and product strategy and roadmap, and own the execution of that roadmap. Independently balance constraints around distributed system engineering, end-to-end system resilience, and hardware utilization
CrowdStrike is growing and you will be instrumental in the hiring, retention, mentorship, and growth of our world class engineering teams
Your impact is not bounded and you will be enabled to engage and collaborate with various teams and ensure our platform's success. You will work cross functionally with your peers in the product engineering organization, the platform engineering organization, as well as with field leaders in sales, customer success, and support
We are a remote first company so you must bring your excellent verbal and written communication skills to bear when you are working with teams across the globe. You'll also travel a few times every year to meet with your teams and peers
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience operating, architecting, designing, upholding SLOs for, and developing distributed system platform software products/releases, preferably in a hyper-scale cloud environment, across all phases of the development lifecycle
8+ years of experience managing teams of 6+ individual contributors reporting to you and delivering multiple major milestones of products, as well as 3+ years of managing several teams and managers that report to you. Demonstrated track record of building strong engineering teams and management teams
Successful track record of scaling up large SaaS-type offerings (e.g., to >500k CPU cores), while handling unit cost optimisation and capacity forecasting
History of positive impact on customer experience and business results
Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when operating services that span many components across several geographical regions
Shown capability to solve complex scenarios of integrating multiple systems and services that are operating 24/7
Proven ability to lead from the front during operational incidents
Experience working with remote teams across geographies and cultures
Ability to communicate and articulate crisply at all levels from executive staff to individual contributors
Preferred
Experience in a similar role within a hyperscaler cloud company (AWS, Azure, GCP) or similar large-scale platform provider
Successful track record of scaling up large SaaS-type offerings to >3M CPU cores while increasing resilience and reducing unit costs
Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures and serverless computing paradigms
Experience with hybrid cloud environments
Exposure to/experience with cybersecurity and intelligence
Machine learning and data science familiarity and hands-on experience
Benefits
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
Company
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity technology firm that provides cloud-delivered protection for cloud workloads, identity, and data.
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Funding
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$1.24BKey Investors
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2022-12-01Post Ipo Equity· $4.6M
2021-01-12Post Ipo Debt· $750M
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