About the Role:
The Core Services team owns the sensor infrastructure that every CrowdStrike endpoint depends on: secure network communications, cryptographic operations, content delivery, and secure local data storage. These are foundational runtime components that execute on every protected endpoint across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who brings the technical depth this domain demands and the organizational instincts to lead a team at the center of the sensor's dependency graph. You'll set technical direction, drive the roadmap, make high-stakes architectural decisions, and advise senior leadership, while staying close enough to the work to ensure every feature meets a high quality bar before it ships.
This is a cross-functional role. Mac, Linux, Windows, and many other teams inside and outside your core organization depend on what your team builds. You'll need to build trust with those teams, navigate competing priorities, and hold the reliability bar under delivery pressure. You will work cross-functionally with peers across engineering management, product management, and program management in our varied environment.
Engineering Managers at CrowdStrike are hands-on technical leaders. We don't expect you to write code on the critical path, but you'll need to deeply understand the architecture, data flows, and systems your team owns — well enough to troubleshoot, review PRs with substance, and push back when a design is heading somewhere it shouldn't. Your technical depth is also what makes you an effective advisor to leadership: you'll be expected to represent your team's position with confidence in cross-org discussions and to translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear guidance for leadership.
This role inherits a team with clear technical ownership and an expanded charter. The work is foundational — the services this team owns must be correct, fast, and reliable on every endpoint, every release. Operational risk is real and well-understood here; the right hire will bring the engineering rigor and management discipline to hold that bar while continuing to evolve the team's architecture.
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What You'll Do:
Technical leadership
Set architectural direction for the team and participate actively in code and design reviews; develop deep familiarity with the team's architecture, data flows, and failure modes
Drive the technical roadmap, balancing near-term delivery commitments against longer-term architectural health
Make high-stakes technical decisions and serve as a technical advisor to senior leadership in cross-org planning and escalations by translating complex tradeoffs into clear guidance
Team leadership
Hire, coach, and grow engineers through honest, frequent feedback and genuine investment in their careers; lead the full recruitment process from initial contact through successful onboarding
Build team cohesion, resolve interpersonal friction, and create an environment where engineers can do their best work
Support your team through resourcing conversations, career development, and the harder conversations when they're neededDelivery and operations
Own project resourcing and workload which includes knowing when to say "no" and "not yet"; keep the team on track and adjust when surprises happen
Own the quality bar for what the team ships; triage support escalations and build strong working relationships with partner teams
Drive continuous improvement in the team's end-to-end testing and validation practices
Gather and communicate status clearly working in tight collaboration with cloud communication, policy teams and other partner teams, from individual contributors to executives
What You'll Need:
Prior experience managing software engineering teams, with a strong foundation as a software developer
Hands-on background in systems software; deep familiarity with C and/or C++ — this is a low-level systems role, not application-layer development
Strong technical grounding in network protocols, connection management, traffic and protocol management, cryptographic integration, and storage systems
A "learn it all" mindset with curiosity to dive deep into unfamiliar domains and adapt quickly as technology and requirements evolve
Experience owning production infrastructure at scale — you understand the real cost of reliability regressions and breaking changes at endpoint scale
Cross-platform exposure across Windows, Linux, and macOS — you can reason about portability and behavioral consistency
Solid design and problem-solving instincts with a genuine passion for engineering excellence, quality, security, performance and the ability to raise that standard across a team
Demonstrated experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers
Experience managing remote teams while maintaining the trust, velocity, and clarity that makes distributed work effective
Strong cross-group collaboration skills — you build credibility across engineering, product, and program management
Clear, direct communicator at every level, from individual contributors to executive staff
Ability and willingness to travel occasionally for team offsites and in-person meetings
Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Bonus Points:
Background in endpoint security, EDR, kernel-adjacent software, or sensor platform engineering
Experience with cryptographic service design or working alongside security teams on crypto requirements
Experience with configuration or content distribution systems at endpoint fleet scale — including atomic updates, staged rollout, versioning, and rollback-safe delivery mechanisms
Experience leading teams through periods of significant growth or evolving scope
Prior work in environments where reliability requirements are non-negotiable at massive fleet scale
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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
