Director of Engineering, Sensor Quality; Remote

About the Company

Crowd Strike, Inc. is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed — we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform.

We are seeking a hands-on QA leader who will be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of quality across all Crowd Strike Falcon Sensor releases, with a focus on validating compatibility in customer environments and end-to-end scenarios as they relate to the overall Falcon Platform.

• Customer-Centric Quality Assurance:
  Design and implement a quality engineering strategy that validates Crowd Strike products against real-world customer environments, focusing on comprehensive testing across all features, operating systems, and prevalent third-party applications.
• End-to-End Testing Strategy:
  Build and oversee a test framework and methodology to drive robust E2E validation of OS/kernel interactions in various patch states and configurations, front-end user interfaces, backend services, hardware and application compatibility in customer-like environments.
• Stress, Performance, and Longevity Testing:
  Oversee teams conducting performance and longevity testing to ensure minimal system overhead for endpoints running the Falcon sensor, along with robustness, stress and longevity testing to ensure the Falcon sensor isn't adversely affecting long-term endpoint stability.
• Root Cause Analysis & Feedback:
  Lead efforts in analyzing endpoint telemetry, integrating feedback into testing processes to prevent recurrences, driving continuous improvements in product quality.
• Cross-Functional Leadership:
  Collaborate with product, engineering, customer support, and operations teams to ensure a deep understanding of customer use cases and infrastructure, embedding this knowledge into testing strategies.
• Performance Metrics & Reporting:
  Define and track quality KPIs, focusing on customer-found defects, test coverage across the platform, and overall release quality.
• Team Leadership:
  Lead, mentor, and expand a high-performing quality engineering team, ensuring the development of scalable and efficient test strategies.
• Risk Management:
  
  Identify, assess, and mitigate risks across the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring the testing strategy scales with product evolution and customer expectations.

• 15+ years of experience in quality engineering, with at least 10 years in leadership roles
• Proven expertise in developing end-to-end quality assurance strategies, including testing at the OS/kernel level, UI testing, and cloud service validation.
• Experience building and implementing test frameworks across various environments, with a focus on ensuring comprehensive coverage from backend to front-end.
• Hands-on experience with test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and integrating customer-reported issues into the testing lifecycle.
• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-based architectures, security testing, and testing complex distributed systems is highly preferred

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
• 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

Crowd Strike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

Crowd Strike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law.