Director, Engineering - Data Infrastructure & Reliability
Core
Founding leader for a centralized Data Platform Enablement team building automation, tooling, and guardrails for CrowdStrike's petabyte-scale, multi-cloud data platform processing 3 trillion events daily.
Role type
Director, Engineering - Data Infrastructure & Reliability
Builds
Platform-wide automation, test infrastructure, self-serve tooling, and compliance validation harnesses for data ingestion, streaming, and query systems.
Domain
Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Engineering
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Organizational leadership, team building, cloud build automation, end-to-end data validation, observability, cost engineering, capacity planning, compliance automation, cross-functional influence
Preferred skills
Experience with stateful distributed systems, sovereign cloud environments, GRC controls, game day practices
Technologies
Multi-cloud environments, data ingestion/streaming systems, automated testing harnesses, observability tooling
Responsibilities
Stand up and scale the team, build automation for stateful cloud builds, create end-to-end data validation systems, standardize reliability metrics, optimize cloud costs, establish resilience testing, automate data residency compliance, drive cross-functional adoption of platform guardrails
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with organizational leadership