Engineering Manager, Cloud Backend - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. • $140K — $215K *
Sunnyvale, CA 94087Hybrid
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software development experience in enterprise-grade cloud products
  • 3+ years of experience in an engineering management role leading backend teams
  • Strong coding ability with experience in cloud-native languages like Go, Python, or Java
  • Proven expertise in microservices and distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of customer provisioning and lifecycle management systems

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a backend engineering team for AIDR cloud services
  • Own the technical vision for customer lifecycle management
  • Drive architectural decisions for scalable distributed systems
  • Contribute code as needed to unblock deliverables or prototype solutions
  • Establish engineering best practices including CI/CD and operational runbooks

Benefits

  • Market-leading compensation and equity awards
  • Comprehensive wellness programs
  • Competitive vacation and holidays
  • Paid parental and adoption leaves
  • Professional development opportunities for all employees
  • Employee Networks and volunteer opportunities
  • Vibrant office culture with top-notch amenities
Full Job Description
About the Role:

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a cloud backend team within our AI Detection and Response (AIDR) group. In this role, you will lead a team of talented engineers responsible for building and operating the next generation of AIDR provisioning and orchestration systems. When customers onboard to the AIDR platform, your team ensures they become operational seamlessly - from initializing customer stores and configuring security policies, to setting up management groups, provisioning data stores, and enabling configuration across dependent services. Your team manages the automation of this complex orchestration to deliver a frictionless customer experience at massive scale.

You'll play a critical role in enhancing existing provisioning flows and architecting next-generation systems that support millions of AI security events per second across petabytes of critical data. This is a player-coach role - while your primary focus is leading and growing your team, you will also contribute code, prototype solutions, and stay deeply embedded in the technical work when needed. This is an opportunity to lead at the intersection of people leadership and technical excellence, building both high-performing teams and high-performing systems that protect organizations worldwide from sophisticated AI-based threats.

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

Success Means:
  • Building and leading a high-performing engineering team that delivers with velocity while maintaining the highest standards of quality, security, and reliability
  • Architecting and driving the evolution of provisioning and orchestration systems that scale seamlessly as AIDR's customer base grows
  • Driving operational excellence through proactive system improvements, robust monitoring, and rapid incident resolution
  • Fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
  • Partnering effectively with product management, peer engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to align on priorities and deliver business outcomes
  • Attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent
What You'll Do:
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers building cloud-native provisioning and orchestration services for the AIDR platform
  • Own the technical vision and roadmap for customer lifecycle management - onboarding, provisioning, configuration, and orchestration across dependent services
  • Drive architectural decisions for highly scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems
  • Contribute directly to the codebase as needed - whether unblocking critical deliverables, prototyping new approaches, fixing production issues, or filling gaps during team scaling (expect ~20-30% hands-on coding depending on team needs)
  • Partner with product management to translate business requirements into technical strategy and execution plans
  • Establish and maintain engineering best practices including code reviews, testing strategies, CI/CD, and operational runbooks
  • Manage team capacity, sprint planning, and delivery commitments while balancing technical debt and innovation
  • Drive operational excellence - own service reliability, incident response, root cause analysis, and preventive measures for your team's services
  • Collaborate with peer engineering managers and architects across CrowdStrike to ensure seamless integration with the broader Falcon ecosystem
  • Recruit, hire, and onboard top engineering talent; conduct performance reviews and support career development
  • Remove blockers, shield the team from distractions, and create an environment where engineers do their best work
  • Participate actively in design reviews and code reviews, providing meaningful technical guidance and making informed architectural trade-offs

What You'll Need:
  • 10+ years of software development experience building enterprise-grade cloud products, with at least 3+ years in an engineering management role leading backend teams
  • Strong hands-on coding ability - you can still write production-quality code and are willing to do so when the team needs it
  • Proven experience building and leading teams that develop microservices running in cloud-native environments at scale
  • Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, cloud architectures, and microservices patterns
  • Deep understanding of customer provisioning, orchestration, and lifecycle management systems
  • Experience with at least one cloud-native programming language: Go, Python, or Java (Go preferred)


Familiarity with:
  • Cloud architectures and microservices
  • Web Services: REST, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, or similar API technologies
  • Data storage systems: PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, or similar databases
  • Container technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration platforms
  • Message/event systems: Kafka, Pulsar, or similar
  • Proven track record of deploying and operating services in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/OCI/Azure)
  • Experience managing service reliability, on-call rotations, and incident response processes
  • Strong people leadership skills - demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineers
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and delivery management
  • Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes

Bonus Points:
  • Previous experience in cybersecurity companies or security-focused products
  • Deep understanding of AI/ML security challenges, threats, and mitigation strategies
  • Experience building customer onboarding, provisioning, or multi-tenant orchestration systems at scale
  • Experience managing teams that own platform/infrastructure services consumed by multiple product teams
  • Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and/or Microsoft Azure
  • Experience with real-time data processing systems (Kafka, Pulsar)
  • Familiarity with MS CoPilot Ecosystem and MS Agent Studio
  • Golang experience
  • Experience leading teams through major system migrations or re-architecture efforts
  • Track record of building engineering culture and processes from the ground up
  • Contributions to open source libraries and/or frameworks


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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
  • 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


The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $140,000 - $215,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.

For detailed information about the U.S. benefits package, please click here.

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