Director, Engineering, NG-SIEM Serverless Platform (Hybrid)
AI summary of the role
Uphold operational excellence for region-level and cell-level serverless platform systems, championing secure, high-quality engineering and balancing availability, scalability, and cost.
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What you’ll do
- Lead by example on customer and product focus.
- Partner with multiple stakeholders to develop technical and product strategy and roadmap, and own execution, balancing distributed system engineering, resilience, and hardware utilization.
- Drive hiring, retention, mentorship, and growth of world-class engineering teams.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product engineering, platform engineering, sales, customer success, and support, and travel a few times per year to meet with global teams.
What you’ll bring
- 12+ years operating, architecting, designing, and developing distributed system platform software in a hyper-scale cloud environment.
- 8+ years managing teams of 6+ ICs and delivering major product milestones, plus 3+ years managing multiple teams and managers.
- Track record of scaling large SaaS offerings (e.g., >500k CPU cores) with unit cost optimization and capacity forecasting.
- Demonstrated operational excellence for services spanning multiple geographical regions.
Technologies
NG-SIEM · serverless · distributed systems · SaaS · cloud-native · SRE · control plane · data plane · AWS · Azure · GCP
About Crowdstrike
AI-native Falcon platform protects endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, data, and enterprise AI for organizations consolidating security on one sensor and data graph.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you. About the Role: Our mission is to make all of our customers' security-relevant data continuously available for automated detection and response, threat hunting, and other Falcon platform use cases. To enable this, the systems behind NG-SIEM (next-generation security information and event management) are growing to accommodate >100 PB of event and action data ingested every day, up to 10 years of retention, and dozens of millions of queries per hour across large sections of the data stored. As the Director of Engineering for the NG-SIEM Serverless Platform team, you will be responsible for building and operating the global- and region-level systems, automation, and infrastructure that will automatically manage the security industry's largest event data store and search service - all while
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