[Remote] Director, Engineering, NG-SIEM Serverless Platform (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity focused on stopping breaches through advanced AI-native platforms. The Director of Engineering for the NG-SIEM Serverless Platform will lead the development and operation of large-scale systems for managing security data, ensuring operational excellence and collaboration across teams. 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 Skills • 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 • 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 • 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 • Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe Company Overview • CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity technology firm that provides cloud-delivered protection for cloud workloads, identity, and data. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • CrowdStrike has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 116 in 2025, 62 in 2024, 91 in 2023, 60 in 2022, 49 in 2021, 22 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job