Jobs at CrowdStrike

Lead backend engineering for authentication and authorization services operating at extreme scale. Design distributed cloud systems, APIs, storage, and scalable architectures handling billions of authorization decisions and millions of events per second. Collaborate across teams, mentor developers, improve performance and reliability, contribute to open source, and apply AI technologies to enhance workflows and decision-making.

Develop and maintain CrowdStrike’s macOS endpoint security sensor using C/C++ and Swift. Design, implement, and own features across operating-system subsystems including filesystems, memory, processes, and networking. Build reliable, high-performance, multithreaded software, troubleshoot customer-reported issues, collaborate with distributed teams, and use AI technologies to improve workflows and decision-making.

Design and develop high-reliability, highly concurrent Linux security sensor software for large-scale environments. Lead technical proposals, design reviews, planning, debugging, incident resolution, testing improvements, and cross-team architecture discussions. Mentor junior engineers, communicate technical tradeoffs, and influence engineering direction. Work across kernel, memory, process, filesystem, and networking subsystems, with opportunities to use eBPF and endpoint security technologies.

Design, develop, and own kernel-mode and low-level user-mode components for CrowdStrike’s Windows Falcon sensor. Build endpoint detection and response capabilities, collaborate on cross-platform sensor architecture, lead design and code reviews, resolve crashes and performance issues, improve kernel testing infrastructure, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep C/C++, Windows internals, driver development, debugging, and experience delivering reliable systems software.

Build and maintain sensor quality dashboards, release-health metrics, developer tooling, and AI-assisted workflows. The role uses Python and Django on the backend, React and CSS on the frontend, and works with LogScale, PostgreSQL, and Valkey to collect and surface sensor health data. Responsibilities include defining health signals, participating in repo-health rotations, improving engineering visibility, and developing Claude Code skills and agentic workflows.

Provides technical leadership for a cloud Policy Management team, designing and scaling distributed backend systems that manage configuration across millions of endpoints. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, code reviews, mentoring, roadmap development, deployment reliability, outage analysis, and cross-team collaboration. The role requires expertise in cloud services, distributed systems, containers, and multiple programming languages, with occasional travel and hybrid onsite work.

Designs and operates large-scale distributed systems for customer placement, auto balancing, and autoscaling within CrowdStrike’s multi-tenant NG-SIEM platform. The role uses real-time usage data to optimize performance and resource utilization, investigates LogScale ingestion, storage, caching, and query behavior, and delivers reliable production features. Responsibilities include incident response, technical strategy, cross-team alignment, mentoring, and leading ambiguous scalability initiatives. The position is hybrid in Sunnyvale, Redmond, New York City, or Austin.

Lead the design and implementation of cloud architecture components and deliver low-latency, highly scalable services. Collaborate with desktop agent and AI teams, drive technical decisions across stakeholders, and improve engineering practices through hiring, design reviews, postmortems, code reviews, and mentorship. Apply AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes while operating resilient, high-volume Tier-1 cloud systems.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput cloud-native backend services and infrastructure for CrowdStrike’s vulnerability assessment platform. Responsibilities include distributed systems, AWS and GCP architecture, Kafka event pipelines, reliability engineering, automation, observability, incident response, and production-ready coding. The role also develops agentic AI capabilities, including safe reasoning guardrails, evaluation, latency, cost, and correctness optimization, while collaborating with security researchers and global platform teams.

Lead the design and implementation of cloud architecture components and deliver low-latency, highly scalable services. Collaborate with desktop agent and AI teams, drive technical decisions across groups, and improve engineering practices through design reviews, postmortems, hiring, mentorship, and code reviews. Build and operate resilient Tier-1 cloud systems while applying AI technologies to improve workflows, efficiency, decision-making, and business outcomes.

Develop high-performance Linux sensor software for cloud and AI workload runtime protection. Build scalable security components using C/C++, kernel modules, and eBPF across Kubernetes, container, virtualization, and public or private cloud environments. Responsibilities include debugging, testing, monitoring, code reviews, secure coding, performance optimization, release collaboration, and leading technical initiatives for cloud, VM, container, and orchestrator security.

Build and maintain analytics data systems and pipelines that capture, transform, and integrate product usage data at scale. Deliver accurate insights and visualizations to inform product decisions, collaborate cross-functionally, and apply AI tools to improve analytics and workflows.

Develop and maintain CrowdStrike’s macOS endpoint security sensor using C/C++ and Swift. Design high-performance, reliable software across operating-system subsystems including filesystems, memory, processes, and networking. Own features from design through delivery, collaborate with distributed teams, troubleshoot customer-reported issues, and contribute to major product releases. The role requires strong concurrency, performance, and low-level systems expertise, plus effective use of AI technologies to improve workflows and decision-making.

Leads CrowdStrike’s global 24/7 Digital Operations Center across multiple sites and regions. Owns operational strategy, staffing, tooling, policies, monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Directs critical incident escalation, crisis activation, post-incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions. Develops DOC leaders and staff, manages resource recommendations and budgets, maintains procedures and incident documentation, and reports performance to senior leadership. Partners with engineering, SRE, IT, and enterprise leaders to improve resilience and operational effectiveness.

Provides executive leadership for global treasury, including capital structure, financing, foreign exchange risk, debt covenant compliance, banking relationships, liquidity, cash forecasting, investments, and M&A support. The role advises executives and the board, leads treasury automation and payment platform initiatives, ensures regulatory compliance, and builds high-performing treasury teams.

Lead architecture and implementation of reliability improvements across CrowdStrike's cloud-native platform. Build shared libraries and services, drive observability and SLO practices, perform performance and cost optimization, run resilience engineering and chaos experiments, automate infrastructure-as-code, mentor engineers, and embed with product teams to deliver scalable, highly reliable distributed systems at organizational scale.

Leads the Platform API team responsible for cross-platform sensor abstractions and an on-sensor machine learning inference runtime. Owns technical strategy, API and ABI design, architecture, production delivery, quality, roadmap, and organizational adoption across Windows, Linux, and macOS. Hires, coaches, and develops engineers; manages resourcing, escalations, testing, telemetry, and cross-functional partnerships. Requires deep low-level C/C++ systems expertise, distributed-team leadership, and experience delivering reliable production software at scale.

Own the end-to-end software release lifecycle across Windows, macOS, Linux, containers, and mobile platforms. Responsibilities include build execution, deployment, post-release monitoring, release coordination, automation development, failure troubleshooting, release calendar management, stakeholder communication, rollback planning, metrics analysis, and go-live support. The role requires CI/CD familiarity, scripting in Python or Go, build systems experience, test-result interpretation, Agile/Scrum knowledge, and occasional support outside standard business hours.

Builds large-scale, cross-platform development infrastructure for CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor. Responsibilities include architecting test frameworks, release and dependency-management systems, CI pipelines, developer APIs, and tools across Windows, Linux, and macOS. The role focuses on improving build reliability, developer feedback, deployment processes, and productivity while collaborating with distributed sensor teams. Python expertise is central, with C/C++ integration and AI-assisted development experience beneficial.

Supports VP-level Engineering leaders through complex calendar and meeting management, domestic and international travel coordination, expense reconciliation, event planning, talent program logistics, status reporting, and confidential administrative operations. The role requires strong judgment, communication, organization, discretion, and hands-on use of AI tools. It is hybrid in Sunnyvale or Redmond, with two onsite days weekly and occasional domestic travel.