Senior Engineering Manager, Platform API - Sensor Foundations (Hybrid)

Location: Hybrid, requiring 2 days per week on-site in New York, NY, Austin, TX, Sunnyvale, CA, or Redmond, WA, USA.

Salary: $160,000–$250,000 base per year for U.S. candidates, plus eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, and benefits.

Company

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company building an AI-native platform that protects organizations through large-scale distributed systems and endpoint security technology.

What you will do

• Set architectural direction for cross-platform Platform API components covering threading, file I/O, hashing, work queues, and memory management.
• Lead the design and production delivery of an on-sensor machine learning inference runtime with a stable C API, out-of-process execution, sandboxing, and platform-specific backend policies.
• Make decisions across Windows, Linux, and macOS regarding shared versus platform-specific implementations, process boundaries, and kernel- versus user-mode constraints.
• Drive API adoption through linting, automated code review, usage guidance, testing, validation tooling, telemetry, and defect-based roadmap planning.
• Hire, coach, develop, and retain engineers while managing team cohesion, resourcing, workload, recruitment, and onboarding.
• Own quality, support escalations, partner relationships, delivery execution, and communication with senior leadership.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing software engineering teams, supported by a strong foundation as a software developer.
• Deep expertise in C and/or C++ low-level systems software across both user-mode and kernel-mode environments.
• Strong experience with API and interface design, including interface clarity, ABI stability, backward compatibility, and downstream impact of breaking changes.
• Experience across Windows, Linux, and macOS, including portability, behavioral consistency, and platform-specific constraints.
• Familiarity with out-of-process architecture, sandboxed service isolation, inter-process communication, and process-boundary performance tradeoffs.
• Experience owning production software at scale and understanding the impact of correctness regressions on continuously running customer endpoints.
• Strong design, problem-solving, engineering quality, security, and performance skills.
• Demonstrated success mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers, including leading distributed teams.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration, credibility, influence, and communication from individual contributors through executive leadership.
• Intellectual curiosity, commitment to understanding systems deeply, willingness to travel occasionally, and proven use of AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience in endpoint security, EDR, kernel-level software, or sensor platform engineering.
• Experience designing cross-platform API layers in large C/C++ codebases or leading on-device ML inference infrastructure on resource-constrained endpoints.
• Experience with GPU, NPU, and Apple Neural Engine hardware acceleration, backend selection, CPU fallback, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, or Core ML.
• Experience with out-of-process inference pipelines, sandboxing, low-latency IPC, inference telemetry, and fleet-scale model staging and versioning.
• Experience designing C APIs consumed from Rust, Swift, and C++, establishing API governance tooling, and leading teams through significant growth or expanding scope.
• Experience in environments where reliability is non-negotiable at massive fleet scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, autonomous, and collaborative work environment with a focus on responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs, competitive vacation and holidays, and paid parental and adoption leave.
• Professional development opportunities for employees at every level and role.
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
• Office amenities and benefits including health insurance, 401(k), equity awards, and bonus eligibility.