Software Engineering Manager-Continuous Identity

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.

Crowd Strike is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the SGNL backend engineering team within our Continuous Identity product group. SGNL forms a core part of Crowd Strike's Continuous Identity control plane, providing real-time identity security that discovers, protects, and continuously verifies human, non-human, and AI identities across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. Legacy identity tools built for predictable users and workloads fall short for modern AI agents that reason and act autonomously, where implicit trust and standing access create dangerous open attack paths.

By enforcing Zero Standing Privileges, SGNL replaces static, broad permissions with just-in-time (JIT) access and continuous authorization that dynamically grants, adjusts, or revokes privileges based on live business and security context. Furthermore, SGNL powers real-time Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) by translating threat signals directly into immediate enforcement actions—such as step-up authentication, session revocation, and blocking lateral movement. In this role, you will build and scale high-throughput pipelines that unify security around identity across endpoints, SaaS platforms, browsers, and cloud resources, processing millions of events per second to stop identity-based attacks.

This is a player-coach role. Your primary focus is leading and growing your team, but you will also contribute code, prototype solutions, and stay embedded in the technical work when needed. You'll lead at the intersection of people leadership and technical excellence, building high-performing teams and systems that protect organizations from identity based attacks.

This role is hybrid, requiring 2–3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.

• Lead a high-performing engineering team delivering with high velocity, quality, security, and reliability.
• Architect scalable, low-latency continuous identity evaluation and enforcement systems.
• Ensure operational excellence, high service availability, and quick incident resolution for critical identity services.
• Foster a collaborative culture of ownership, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
• Partner across product management, infrastructure, and engineering teams to align and deliver business goals.
• Attract, mentor, and retain top engineering talent.

• Lead, mentor, and hire a high-performing backend…