Senior Manager, Streaming Search

Employment Type: Full time Location Type: Remote or Office Location

Position Overview

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Our mission is to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We operate at a massive scale, processing almost 3 trillion events per day with a rapidly growing traffic volume. Our customers span all industries, relying on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe, and their lives moving forward. We foster a mission-driven culture that provides every CrowdStriker with the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We are seeking talented individuals with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, community, and each other. The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role

This is a Senior Manager position leading our Streaming Search team. The role is open to either full-time remote work or one of our office locations.

You will lead a team responsible for designing and building a high-throughput system that partitions, filters, queries, and joins streaming data at the scale of over three trillion events per day. Customers depend on this system for generating high-quality training data for large-scale machine learning models and actionable leads for threat hunters to track down malicious actors, all in service of our core mission to stop breaches.

You will manage an agile, distributed team of collaborative engineers who work on all aspects of the system, from cloud and datacenter architecture to low-level performance tuning of event handling. If you enjoy building and leading high-performing teams, making strategic technical decisions, and tackling complex problems without well-defined solutions, you will fit right in.

We are looking for a manager with world-class experience in leading streaming search teams, a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (multithreading, memory, data structures), and the ability to guide a team working on a distributed system at CrowdStrike's scale. Our team builds a large distributed system primarily in C++ for high performance. While technical expertise is valuable, your primary focus will be on team leadership, strategic direction, and enabling your engineers' success. As a leader, you will foster a technically fearless environment where your team collaborates to find the best solutions.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, preferably leading teams building distributed systems.
• Strong technical background with...