Director, Engineering - Cloud Detection Platform; Remote

## Director, Engineering
- Cloud Detection Platform (Remote)
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As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike protects 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 work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily.

Our customers span all industries, and they count on Crowd Strike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. Crowd Strikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.

We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers 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
** Crowd Strike stops breaches, and detection content is how we do it. The Cloud Detection Platform team builds the engines that execute detection logic in the cloud at massive scale, along with the infrastructure that lets detection engineers author, test, deploy, and manage that content safely across the entire Falcon fleet.  We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead this platform.

You will manage multiple teams responsible for our cloud detection engines (scheduled, real-time, and retrospective execution across first- and third-party data) and the supporting infrastructure: content management and deployment pipelines, rule lifecycle and exception management, testing and validation environments, and the observability, quotas, and SLOs that keep rule execution reliable and cost-effective for customers.  This is a high-leverage role at the center of Crowd Strike's detection strategy.

Your platform serves detection engineers across endpoint, cloud, identity, and next-gen SIEM, and every improvement you ship translates directly into faster, higher-quality protection for thousands of customers.  
** What You'll Do
*** Own the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Cloud Detection Platform, from detection engines to the content delivery infrastructure that supports them
* Lead and grow an organization of managers and senior engineers across multiple teams, owning the full talent lifecycle: hiring, coaching, performance, and succession
* Be accountable for the reliability, latency, and cost of detection rule execution at fleet scale, including SLO definition, capacity and quota management, and COGS
* Drive the evolution toward a unified multi-engine detection architecture, balancing scheduled search, real-time, and retrospective execution across engines
* Partner closely with detection engineering, content, product management, and data platform teams to prioritize and deliver against roadmap commitments
* Build the guardrails that make shipping detection content safe: pre-release validation, staged deployment, rollback, exclusion management, and end-to-end testing
* Anticipate and manage escalations and cross-team dependencies, and represent the platform in architecture and planning forums across the product organization
* Drive annual operating plan and organizational planning for…