About Crowd Strike

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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every Crowd Striker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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.

About The Role

Crowd Strike Falcon is a two-component security product. One component is the sensor, installed on endpoint client systems that observes system activity and recognizes malicious behavior, then provides on-system prevention capability and remote telemetry to the Falcon cloud. The Cloud component aggregates sensor telemetry for each customer's network and can correlate malicious behavior across multiple machines, presenting our customers' operations teams with a prioritized summary of the threats detected in their environments. Join Crowd Strike and become a key leader in building the most innovative endpoint security solution in the world. As an Engineering Manager for our performance test team, you will be expected to have ownership of projects related to ongoing sensor development. As part of our sensor quality team you will be responsible for strategizing, testing, actioning, and reporting on our sensor performance quality. Performance team duties include understanding the current development, test and production environments across multiple platforms. Then designing and implementing solutions to ensure the performance of the sensor.

What You'll Do

• Provide technical and managerial leadership within the Sensor Quality team particularly around non-functional testing such as Endpoint performance. Responsibilities include driving test strategies, building a tool roadmap, mentoring engineers, providing technical guidance and driving quality outcomes.
• Own performance test roadmap, including design and maintain complex test environments that replicate customer deployments to validate sensor performance under real-world workloads.
• Drive performance test strategies: automation frameworks, workload generators, telemetry capture and analysis pipelines
• Champion initiatives to improve CPU, memory, I/O, disk and network efficiency across platforms.
• Troubleshooting complex sensor test and tooling issues and champion development projects that will help to improve overall sensor performance while supporting sensor engineers
• Support sensor development teams with service level agreements and operational needs.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams in various locations.

What You'll Need

• Advanced knowledge of Python for automation and data analysis across multiple operating systems.
• General knowledge and understanding of C/C++
• Strong understanding of performance characteristics, including CPU utilization, memory management, execution cost and concurrency/threading impacts.
• Hands on experience setting up and managing enterprise-scale environments (Such as Windows AD, SQL cluster and distributed clusters).
• Ability to design reproducible testbeds that mirror customer topologies for accurate performance validation.
• Proven experience with performance engineering methodologies: profiling, benchmarking, scalability analysis, stress and longevity testing.
• Experience building and leading teams that deliver system level performance testing frameworks.
• Ability to analyze large-scale telemetry to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations.
• Advanced knowledge of product quality strategies including manual testing, automation, white or black box testing at massive scale
• Experience working with and leading teams to define and execute on major projects
• Ability to lead, mentor, communicate, collaborate, partner and work effectively in a distributed team

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience with profiling tools (perf, ETW, Xcode Instruments, etc) across Windows, macOS, Linux.
• Experience with cloud-scale telemetry pipelines and data visualization (EKL, Splunk, Log Scale)
• Experience with Jenkins configuration and optimizations
• Strong background in scalable, light-weight and high performing systems
• Familiarity and experience with Agile process
• Knowledge and expertise in the cyber-security landscape

Benefits of Working at Crowd Strike

• 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

Equal Opportunity

Crowd Strike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program. Crowd Strike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements. If you need assistance accessing or reviewing the information on this website or need help submitting an application for employment or requesting an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.