Sr. Manager, Engineering - Streaming Search; Remote, East Coast

Crowd Strike, Inc.

Full time

R23737

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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every Crowd Striker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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.

This is a Leadership (Manager 'or' Sr. Manager) position leading our 'Liveness' Streaming Search Platform & Product team(s), which makes our Threat Graph architecture searchable. That's over 3 Trillion events/day representing active threats in customer environments.

You'll be leading engineers who design and build a high‑throughput system to partition, filter, query, and join streaming data at the scale of (as stated above) over three trillion events per day. Customers of this system rely on your team's work to generate everything from high‑quality training data for large‑scale machine learning models to actionable leads that threat hunters can use to track down malicious actors—all to fulfill our core mission of stopping breaches.

You'll be managing an agile, distributed team of collaborative engineers who work on all aspects of the system from cloud and datacenter architecture down to low‑level performance tuning of event handling and everything in between. If you enjoy building and leading high‑performing teams, making strategic technical decisions, and tackling hard problems that don't have well‑defined solutions, then you'll fit right in.

We're looking for a manager with world‑class experience in leading distributed services / backend contributor teams, solid understanding of computer science fundamentals around multithreading, memory, and data structures, and the ability to guide a team working on a distributed system at Crowd Strike scale. Major plus if you have actually run streaming search teams. Our team builds a large distributed system primarily written in C++ to achieve high performance.

While technical expertise is valuable, your primary focus will be on team leadership, strategic direction, and ensuring your engineers have what they need to succeed. As a leader, you'll need to foster a technically fearless environment where your team works together to find the best solution for the task at hand.

The role is open to either full‑time remote work or one of our office locations.

• 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

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, preferably…