CrowdStrike, Inc.
Engineering Manager, SDET - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) (Hybrid)
USA - Sunnyvale, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$215kDetected 10 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDRESTgRPCKafkaMachine LearningA/B TestingCybersecurityAgilePerformance Management
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About the role
- You'll set the quality bar not just through strategy and process, but by demonstrating what engineering excellence looks like.
- PLEASE NOTE: This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.
- Driving quality culture across the broader AIDR engineering organization
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of SDETs while being hands-on enough to build test frameworks, write automation, develop tooling, and debug complex failures alongside your team
- Own and drive testing strategy across functional, performance, contract, and chaos/resilience testing concerns for the AIDR platform
- Participate actively in code and design reviews - reviewing both your team's work and product code with a quality-first lens, providing guidance on testability and code hygiene
- Define and maintain quality gates across CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated validation is comprehensive and reliable
- Partner with backend and UI engineering managers to align on quality standards, shared tooling, and testing best practices
- Manage team capacity, sprint planning, and delivery commitments while balancing framework investments with feature validation needs
- Recruit, hire, and onboard top SDET talent; conduct performance reviews and support career development
- Proven experience building testing frameworks and tooling for Cloud SaaS products or similar SOA at scale
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software development/SDET roles, with at least 3+ years in an engineering management role leading SDET or quality engineering teams
- Experience defining and driving testing strategy at a team or organizational level
- Expertise in at least one of: Golang, Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript - Go is our primary backend language, but strong engineers in any of these are welcome
Nice to have
- Previous experience in cybersecurity companies or security-focused products
- Understanding of AI/ML security challenges, threats, and mitigation strategies
- Experience with low-latency cloud services using gRPC and event-driven messaging systems such as Kafka or Pulsar
- Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing (e.g., Chaos Monkey, Litmus, Gremlin)
- Experience with UI test automation and front-end validation frameworks
Skills
- Expertise in at least one of:
- Golang, Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript - Go is our primary backend language, but strong engineers in any of these are welcome
- Deep experience in a cloud distributed systems stack: e.g., Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and/or similar technologies
- Experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or OCI, particularly compute and storage offerings
- Extensive experience with testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, TestNG, Go testing)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing into deployment workflows
- Experience testing REST and/or gRPC APIs and real-time or high-volume data systems
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate quality strategy to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Bonus Points:
Compensation
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Benefits
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
- Paid parental and adoption leaves
Company info
- 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.
- Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward.
- We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other.
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