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Engineering Manager, SDET - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike · USA - Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

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About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader with an advanced cloud-native platform for protecting endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data. Backed by Accel, ICONIQ and IVP.

About the role

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced SDET Engineering Manager to lead our quality engineering efforts within the AI Detection and Response (AIDR) team. In this role, you will lead a team of SDETs responsible for end-to-end validation of AIDR services — a platform that processes millions of AI security events per second and manages petabytes of critical AI data. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • Strong hands-on coding ability — able to write production-quality test frameworks, debug complex distributed systems, and contribute meaningfully to the codebase when the team needs it
  • Proven experience building testing frameworks and tooling for Cloud SaaS products or similar SOA at scale
  • Experience defining and driving testing strategy at a team or organizational level
  • Strong debugging skills: ability to spot design flaws, race conditions, and performance bottlenecks in complex distributed architectures
  • 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
More about this role

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike 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 CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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...

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