Hybrid Director of Engineering, Sensor Quality

at CrowdStrike

• Job title: Director of Engineering, Sensor Quality
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $195,000 - $290,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sunnyvale, United States

About the role

• Director of Engineering responsible for quality assurance in CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor product. Leading testing strategies and teams to maintain high standards of performance and compatibility.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a quality engineering strategy that validates CrowdStrike products against real-world customer environments
• Engage with customers from C-suite to practitioners to instill confidence in our quality strategy
• Build and oversee a test framework and methodology to drive robust E2E validation of OS/kernel interactions
• Collaborate with release teams outside of sensor, including content, UI, and cloud to ensure the E2E scenarios are covered
• Oversee teams conducting performance and longevity testing to ensure minimal system overhead for endpoints running the Falcon sensor
• Lead efforts in analyzing endpoint telemetry, integrating feedback into testing processes to prevent recurrences
• Collaborate with product, engineering, customer support, and operations teams to ensure a deep understanding of customer use cases
• Define and track quality KPIs, focusing on customer-found defects and overall release quality
• Lead, mentor, and expand a high-performing quality engineering team, ensuring the development of scalable and efficient test strategies

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in quality engineering, with at least 10 years in leadership roles
• Proven expertise in developing end-to-end quality assurance strategies, including testing at the OS/kernel level, UI testing, and cloud service validation
• Experience building and implementing test frameworks across various environments, with a focus on ensuring comprehensive coverage from backend to front-end
• Hands-on experience with test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and integrating customer-reported issues into the testing lifecycle
• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Familiarity with cloud-based architectures, security testing, and testing complex distributed systems is highly preferred

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role.