Director, Engineering - Cloud Detection Platform (Remote)
Core
Lead the Cloud Detection Platform team building engines for detection logic execution at massive scale and the infrastructure for content management and deployment.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Platform)
Builds
Cloud detection engines (scheduled, real-time, retrospective), content management pipelines, and supporting infrastructure for the Falcon fleet.
Domain
Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Large-scale distributed systems architecture, Team leadership (managers and senior engineers), Strategic roadmap ownership, Operational excellence (SLOs, capacity, cost), Cross-functional partnership, AI technology integration
Preferred skills
Security/Detection engineering domain, Detection-as-code, Multi-tenant capacity management, AI-assisted workflows
Technologies
Query/search engines, Streaming systems, Rule/event processing pipelines, Cloud platforms
Responsibilities
Own multi-year strategy and architecture for the Cloud Detection Platform; Lead and grow an organization of managers and senior engineers; Ensure reliability, latency, and cost-effectiveness of detection rule execution; Drive evolution toward a unified multi-engine detection architecture; Partner with detection engineering, content, product, and data teams; Build guardrails for safe content shipping (validation, deployment, rollback); Manage escalations and cross-team dependencies; Drive annual operating plan and organizational planning.
