Software Engineering Manager-Continuous Identity

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 other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the SGNL backend engineering team within our Continuous Identity product group. SGNL forms a core part of CrowdStrike's Continuous Identity control plane, providing real-time identity security that discovers, protects, and continuously verifies human, non-human, and AI identities across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments.

Legacy identity tools built for predictable users and workloads fall short for modern AI agents that reason and act autonomously, where implicit trust and standing access create dangerous open attack paths. By enforcing Zero Standing Privileges, SGNL replaces static, broad permissions with just-in-time (JIT) access and continuous authorization that dynamically grants, adjusts, or revokes privileges based on live business and security context.

Furthermore, SGNL powers real-time Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) by translating threat signals directly into immediate enforcement actions—such as step-up authentication, session revocation, and blocking lateral movement. In this role, you will build and scale high-throughput pipelines that unify security around identity across endpoints, SaaS platforms, browsers, and cloud resources, processing millions of events per second to stop identity-based attacks.

This is a player-coach role. Your primary focus is leading and growing your team, but you will also contribute code, prototype solutions, and stay embedded in the technical work when needed. You'll lead at the intersection of people leadership and technical excellence, building high-performing teams and systems that protect organizations from identity based attacks.

Please Note: This role is hybrid, requiring 2–3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.

What Success Looks Like

Lead a high-performing engineering team delivering with high velocity, quality, security, and reliability.

Architect scalable, low-latency continuous identity evaluation and enforcement systems.

Ensure operational excellence, high service availability, and quick incident resolution for critical identity services.

Foster a collaborative culture of ownership, continuous learning, and technical excellence.

Partner across product management, infrastructure, and engineering teams to align and deliver business goals.

Attract, mentor, and retain top engineering talent.

What You'll Do

• Lead, mentor, and hire a high-performing backend engineering team; manage capacity, performance, and career development.
• Drive day-to-day technical execution, unblock your team, and maintain alignment with broader product goals while directly guiding hands-on engineering efforts.
• Drive architectural decisions for low-latency, scalable distributed systems while spending ~20–30% of your time prototyping, coding, and unblocking the team.
• Lead architecture and design reviews to ensure robust, scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Establish engineering best practices (CI/CD, code reviews, testing) and manage service reliability, SLOs, and incident response.
• Track key engineering metrics to foster continuous improvement and team performance.
• Drive cross-functional planning and roadmapping in close alignment with business goals and product strategy.
• Partner with product management and peer engineering teams (Falcon Identity Protection, Next-Gen SIEM, Privileged Access) to align on delivery and broader ecosystem integration.

What You'll Need

• 10+ years software development experience with 2+ years leading backend cloud engineering teams
• Hands-on coding ability (Go, Python, or Java; Go preferred)
• Proven success building and scaling cloud-native microservices and distributed systems
• Familiarity with REST/gRPC, databases, K8s, and event streaming (Kafka)
• Experience operating production services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure) including on-call/incident response
• Strong people leadership, hiring, mentoring, and Agile/Scrum delivery management skills

Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Points

• Background in cybersecurity, Zero Trust, ITDR, PAM, identity protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML) or identity-based threat mitigations
• Experience with Shared Signals Framework (CAEP/RISC) or non-human/machine identities
• Familiarity with graph databases(Neo4j), stream processing (Kafka/Flink), or ML-based behavioral analytics
• Track record of building engineering teams/culture and leading major system migrations/integrations