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. You'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

The Platform API team builds the cross-platform APIs and abstractions that give the CrowdStrike Falcon sensor a consistent programming interface across Windows, Linux, and macOS. The team owns the foundational layer that separates feature development from OS-specific implementation, including threading, file I/O, hashing, work queues, and memory management. Every engineering team that builds sensor capabilities depends on this layer,



so its quality and correctness directly shape how quickly and safely CrowdStrike can deliver protection to customers.

The team's scope is growing. A central focus is building a shared platform for on-sensor machine learning inference runtime: a stable C API, backed by an isolated out-of-process service, that runs models on hardware-accelerated backends on each platform. This runtime will make inference-based threat detection as accessible to engineering teams as rules-based detection is today, and it will enable CrowdStrike to bring the next generation of AI-powered protection to hundreds of millions of endpoints.

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager with deep systems expertise and robust organizational leadership to guide this team. You will own the technical roadmap, lead the inference runtime from early design through production delivery, make key decisions on API design and long-term compatibility, and build the partnerships needed for broad adoption across the sensor organization. You will collaborate closely with Windows, Linux, and macOS engineering teams, platform infrastructure teams, and partners in product and program management.

What You're Stepping Into

The Platform API team is at an inflection point. As the Falcon sensor continues to grow in capability and reach, a unified, well-tested platform abstraction layer has become essential to how CrowdStrike builds. Consolidating platform behavior across Windows, Linux,



and macOS into a single consistent foundation will improve quality, performance, and delivery speed for every team that builds on the sensor. This is a multi-year effort, and you will own its roadmap, its strategy, and its execution.

At the same time, the team is building one of the most significant new capabilities in the sensor platform: an on-sensor ML inference runtime designed from the ground up. The API design, execution model, and first production integrations are in active development now. Your leadership will shape how quickly CrowdStrike can deliver AI-powered detections to hundreds of millions of endpoints, and how easily teams across the company can bring new models to the sensor.

If you are energized by building, this is your opportunity to shape a team's identity, expand its scope, and earn broad organizational trust through technical excellence. Your work will be visible across the entire sensor organization, and you will lead a team whose platform the rest of the company relies on every day.

Location

This role is hybrid, requiring 2x days per week on‑site at one of the posted locations.

What You’ll Do

Technical leadership

- Set architectural direction for cross-platform API components, including threading, file I/O, hashing, work queues, and memory management
- Lead the architecture and delivery of the centralized platform for on-sensor ML inference runtime, including C API design for ABI stability and cross‑language use, the out-of‑process execution and sandboxing model, and backend selection and versioning policy across platforms
- Make critical design decisions on what is implemented once versus per platform, what runs in‑process

📌 Sr. Engineering Manager, Platform API (Redmond)
🏢 CrowdStrike
📍 Redmond