Director of Engineering, Sensor Development Tooling (Remote)

Job Description

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large-scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day, with traffic that is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe, and their lives moving forward. We are a mission-driven company that cultivates a culture giving every CrowdStriker the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We are always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community, and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About The Role

We are seeking a strategic engineering leader to oversee the development, maintenance, and evolution of critical developer tooling infrastructure that empowers CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor engineering organization. This role will manage three specialized teams supporting hundreds of engineers across the Falcon Sensor development ecosystem, ensuring they have world-class tools, workflows, and automation to deliver high-quality security solutions at scale.

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in developer tooling, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity, combined with proven experience managing large, cross-functional engineering teams and delivering exceptional internal customer service.

What You'll Do

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Define and execute the technical strategy for sensor development tooling, ensuring alignment with broader engineering goals and CrowdStrike's mission.
• Drive innovation in developer experience and engineering productivity across the sensor organization.

Multi-Team Management

• Lead and mentor three specialized teams totaling 20-30 engineers:
  • Operations & Build Infrastructure: Overseeing technical operations interfaces, build systems, and CI/CD pipeline infrastructure.
  • Release Testing & Validation Tools: Managing static analysis platforms, automated bug filing systems, cloud simulation environments, and internal testing frameworks.
  • Development Workflow & Tooling: Directing code formatting automation, linting systems, C/C++ library management, unit testing frameworks, and development environment setup automation.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with sensor engineering teams, release management, quality assurance, and platform teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions that enhance developer productivity and code quality.

Technical Architecture & Implementation

• Drive architectural decisions for complex developer tooling systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Oversee the design and implementation of build systems, CI/CD pipelines, static analysis tools, and development environment automation.

Engineering Excellence

• Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and operational excellence across all tooling teams.
• Implement metrics and KPIs to measure developer productivity and tool effectiveness.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary interface between tooling teams and their internal customers, ensuring exceptional service delivery and proactive communication of roadmaps, changes, and improvements.

Talent Development

• Build, grow, and retain high-performing engineering teams through effective hiring, mentoring, career development, and technical leadership.
• Foster an environment of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Risk Management & Operations

• Ensure robust operational readiness and reliability for all tooling infrastructure.

Requirements

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Application Instructions

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Company Information

• Company: CrowdStrike
• Industry: Cybersecurity
• Mission: To stop breaches and protect modern organizations with an AI-native platform.
• Culture: Mission-driven, flexible, autonomous, innovative, customer-focused.