Senior Program Manager - Engineering (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid, with 2–3 days per week in the Sunnyvale, California office; U.S. candidates

Base salary: $140,000–$220,000 per year, plus eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, and benefits.

Company

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company providing an AI-native platform that protects organizations and processes nearly 3 trillion events per day.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end execution of complex, cross-functional engineering programs from scope and planning through feature release.
• Define milestones, schedules, assignments, and roadmap delivery plans with engineering leaders and development managers.
• Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and critical issues, escalating decisions with clear options and recommendations.
• Coordinate with product management, design, UX, Cloud, Sensor, Content, technology teams, subject matter experts, and executives.
• Translate technical discussions into action items, trade-offs, status updates, and concise executive summaries.
• Lead Scrum meetings, track actions, improve team processes, share best practices, and mentor other program managers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of program or project management experience in software development.
• Experience owning a large program or product-feature portfolio, including requirements scoping, milestone planning, and support for technical teams.
• Proven experience using AI to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
• Proficiency with project-management AI features for backlog prioritization, meeting-note summarization, dependency management, and risk identification.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to adapt messaging for developers through executives.
• Strong command of Agile/Scrum and the software development lifecycle.
• Proficiency in Jira, including queries, ticket and board creation, and facilitation, plus Confluence.
• Ability to work through persistent obstacles, make timely decisions with attention to detail, and operate with initiative in a fast-changing environment.
• Comfort working collaboratively in a consensus-driven environment with honest and open communication.

Nice to have

• Scaled Agile experience.
• Exposure to vulnerability management products and other complex, interdependent technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, autonomous work culture with an emphasis on responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.
• Health and 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, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.
• Equal employment opportunity practices, including support for veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Hiring process

• Submit a response instead of a cover letter describing a typical day in program management, the value you would bring, and one project you led through a potential failure.
• For the project example, begin with a short paragraph describing the problem, followed by no more than 10 bullets detailing the actions that produced a successful outcome.