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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:
The Deployment team owns the full lifecycle of the CrowdStrike Falcon sensor on the endpoint: how it is installed, updated, configured, and removed, and the native user interfaces through which the sensor interacts with end users. Every Falcon deployment starts with this team's software. Installers and update mechanisms across Windows, macOS, and Linux must work reliably on millions of endpoints, across thousands of customer environments and every supported OS version.
The team is now building a next-generation deployment system that changes how CrowdStrike delivers protection. Instead of shipping every change as a full sensor release, the sensor will be delivered as signed, independently updatable packages. Only tested combinations reach production, every update can be fully rolled back, and the system recovers on its own with no user interaction. It needs to do this reliably on Windows, macOS, and Linux, from desktops and servers to containerized workloads.
Alongside this, the team is modernizing installer infrastructure on each platform and building a native, extensible endpoint UI platform for Windows and macOS.
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager with deep systems expertise and strong organizational leadership to guide this team. You will own the technical roadmap, lead the deployment system from architecture through production delivery, and balance the reliability of today's installers with investment in what comes next. You will work closely with Windows, macOS, and Linux engineering teams, cloud delivery and architecture teams, release engineering, and partners in product and program management.
Location:
- This role is hybrid, requiring 2x days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.
What You're Stepping Into:
Deployment is where every customer first experiences Falcon, and every upgrade after that either builds their trust or erodes it. The team's work sits at the boundary between the sensor, the cloud, and the customer's own IT environment, so getting it right takes both technical depth and broad partnership across the company.
You're joining at the right moment. The design for the next-generation deployment system is taking shape, and the decisions made over the next year will determine how quickly and safely CrowdStrike can deliver new protection for years to come. You'll lead that work from design review through first production delivery.
You'll also build the team that delivers it: hiring, setting the technical bar, and shaping how the team operates. If you're energized by building both systems and teams, this is a rare chance to own a foundational platform that every customer and every sensor team depends on.
What You'll Do:
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Technical leadership
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Lead the architecture and delivery of a next-generation deployment system built on signed, immutable packages, a desired-state model, atomic updates with checkpoint and full rollback, and built-in health checks and self-repair
- Partner with cloud, release, and build teams to define the end-to-end contract: how packages are built, tested together, approved for release, and delivered to the endpoint, so that only sanctioned combinations reach production
- Make sure the deployment system works safely alongside the sensor's tamper protection, so installed components stay trustworthy through every install, update, and rollback
- Plan the migration from today's installers and update mechanisms, including backward compatibility with sensors already in the field and a recovery path when things go wrong
- Own installer technology strategy on each platform. Modernize the toolchain, reduce third-party dependencies, and support the full range of OS versions, CPU architectures, and environments, from desktops and servers to containers and Kubernetes
- Guide the direction of native endpoint UI and extensibility, such as the system tray, menu bar, and installer experience. This includes framework choices, cross-platform consistency, and accessibility
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Take an active part in design and code reviews, and develop a deep understanding of the team's components, upgrade constraints, and failure modes
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Team leadership
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Hire, coach, and grow engineers through honest, frequent feedback and real investment in their careers; lead the full recruitment process from first contact through onboarding
- Build team cohesion, resolve interpersonal friction, and create an environment where engineers can do their best work
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Support your team through resourcing decisions, career development, and difficult conversations when they are needed
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Delivery and operations
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Balance sustaining work and roadmap investment. Respond quickly to installation and upgrade escalations while protecting capacity for strategic work, and use data to make sustaining load visible
- Own the quality bar for everything the team ships. A failed install or upgrade is a customer outage, so build automated validation across OS versions, upgrade paths, and real-world customer configurations
- Build observability into the sensor lifecycle, so the cloud and support teams always know the true state of every endpoint's installed components
- Partner with release engineering, quality, and support teams on release readiness and customer-facing deployment issues
- Build a data-driven roadmap that uses install and upgrade success telemetry, escalation trends, and customer feedback, and communicate investment needs and progress clearly to senior leadership
Engineering Managers at CrowdStrike are hands-on technical leaders. You won't be expected to write code on the critical path, but you will need a deep understanding of the installers, update mechanisms, and cross-platform systems your team owns. That understanding lets you troubleshoot effectively, give substantive feedback in code reviews, and redirect a design when it's heading the wrong way. It also makes you a trusted advisor to leadership who can represent the team in cross-functional discussions and turn complex technical tradeoffs into clear recommendations.
What You'll Need:
- Proven experience managing software engineering teams, built on a strong foundation as a software developer
- Hands-on background in systems software, with deep expertise in C and/or C++ on Windows, macOS, and/or Linux
- Experience designing, building, or operating software update or delivery systems at fleet scale, including versioning, staged rollout, atomic updates, and safe rollback
- Deep familiarity with platform installation and update technologies, such as Windows Installer (MSI) and WiX, macOS installer packages and system extensions, Linux packaging (RPM/DEB), and OS service management
- Solid understanding of the security requirements for privileged software on the endpoint, including code signing and signature verification, notarization, driver and system extension installation, and protection against local tampering
- Cross-platform experience with the ability to reason about portability, behavioral consistency, and platform-specific constraints across operating systems and CPU architectures
- Experience owning production software at scale, and a clear understanding of what a regression costs when software runs continuously on customer endpoints
- Strong design and problem-solving skills, a genuine passion for engineering excellence, quality, security, and performance, and the ability to raise those standards across a team
- Demonstrated success hiring, mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers, and leading distributed teams while maintaining trust, velocity, and clarity
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of building credibility and influence across engineering, product, and program management
- Clear, direct communication at every level, from individual contributors to executive leadership
- Ability and willingness to travel occasionally for team offsites and in-person meetings
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Bonus Points:
- Background in endpoint security, EDR, or endpoint agent software
- Experience building modular package management or application delivery platforms, such as OS package managers, enterprise software distribution, or over-the-air (OTA) update systems
- Experience with desired-state or declarative delivery models, such as Kubernetes controllers, GitOps, or image-based OS updates
- Familiarity with software supply chain security, including signed manifests, artifact verification, and frameworks
- Experience deploying agents in containerized and Kubernetes environments, including DaemonSets and immutable container images
- Familiarity with enterprise deployment ecosystems, such as Microsoft Intune and Configuration Manager, Jamf, Group Policy, golden images, and VDI environments
- Experience with native desktop UI frameworks, such as WinUI 3 or WPF on Windows and SwiftUI or AppKit on macOS
- Experience leading a team through expanding scope, and moving a sustaining-heavy team toward a roadmap-driven one
- Prior work in environments where reliability is non-negotiable at massive fleet scale
Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
- Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
- Paid parental and adoption leaves
- Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
- Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
- Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.
CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions-including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs-on valid job requirements.
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CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $160,000 - $260,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off. For detailed information about the U.S. benefits package, please click here.
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FAANG Companies Sponsor EM Roles as Standard
Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft file thousands of H-1B petitions annually and process engineering manager sponsorship routinely. Your visa status will not be a differentiating factor in their hiring decisions. These companies have established LCA precedent for management roles.
L-1A Is the Strongest Long-Term Immigration Path
If you manage an engineering team at a multinational tech company's international office, L-1A managerial transfer has no lottery, no cap, and provides a direct path to EB-1C green card (which also skips PERM). Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber regularly transfer EMs from London, Bangalore, and Sydney through this pathway.
Build a Public Technical Leadership Profile
Patents, open-source project leadership, conference talks, and published technical writing support O-1 extraordinary ability classification, which bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely. Even if you pursue H-1B, a visible technical profile strengthens your candidacy because hiring managers at top companies actively source candidates with public contributions.
Growth-Stage Startups Also Sponsor
Companies that have raised Series B or later (Databricks, Figma, Notion, Vercel, Anthropic) sponsor engineering managers and have the urgency to hire leadership talent they cannot find domestically. These companies offer $150,000 to $220,000 base with significant equity upside that can exceed FAANG total compensation if the company succeeds.
Autonomous Vehicle and AI Companies Are Hiring Aggressively
Waymo, Cruise, Aurora, Tesla AI, and Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI labs are scaling engineering organizations rapidly and need experienced managers. These companies sponsor H-1B aggressively because the domestic talent pool for ML engineering leadership is extremely thin. AI/ML management experience commands a significant premium.
TN Works for Canadian and Mexican Engineering Leaders
The Engineer category on the USMCA treaty list covers software and systems engineering management roles. Canadians can apply at the border and start the same day. TN renews indefinitely in three-year increments, making it viable as long-term work authorization without transitioning to H-1B.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the typical compensation for sponsored Engineering Manager roles in the U.S.?
Engineering managers at Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft earn $200,000 to $300,000 in total compensation at the M1/L6 level. Senior engineering managers earn $300,000 to $420,000. Directors of engineering at major tech companies earn $400,000 to $600,000 or more with equity. H-1B visa LCA filings for engineering management roles show base salaries typically ranging from $160,000 to $250,000. Growth-stage startups pay $150,000 to $220,000 in base with significant equity upside.
Which visa types do Engineering Managers typically use?
H-1B is the most common and has high approval rates for engineering management roles. L-1A (managerial capacity) is widely used by multinational tech companies transferring engineering leaders to U.S. offices, with the advantage of no annual cap and a direct path to EB-1C green card. TN visas serve Canadian and Mexican citizens under the Engineer category. O-1 visa is used for engineering leaders with patents, significant open-source contributions, or major product launches. E-3 visa is available for Australians.
What types of companies sponsor Engineering Managers?
Major technology companies are the primary sponsors: Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Stripe, Uber, and Airbnb all sponsor engineering managers routinely. Growth-stage startups that have raised Series B or later rounds also sponsor, though less predictably. Automotive and autonomous vehicle companies (Tesla, Rivian, Waymo, Cruise), aerospace (SpaceX), and fintech (Stripe, Square, Plaid) are also active sponsors for engineering leadership.
How to find Engineering Manager jobs with visa sponsorship?
To find Engineering Manager positions with visa sponsorship, use Migrate Mate, which specializes in connecting international talent with sponsoring employers. Focus on tech companies, startups, and established corporations that commonly sponsor H-1B, O-1, or L-1 visas for senior engineering roles. These employers actively seek experienced managers to lead their development teams and often have established visa sponsorship processes.
What qualifications do Engineering Manager roles require?
A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field is the baseline requirement. Most engineering managers have 8 to 12 years of total experience, including at least 2 to 3 years of direct people management. Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain engineers is weighted as heavily as technical depth. At senior levels, experience managing managers (M2 or higher) and scaling organizations through rapid growth are differentiating qualifications.
What is the career progression for a sponsored Engineering Manager?
The standard trajectory moves from engineering manager (managing 5 to 10 individual contributors) to senior engineering manager (managing multiple teams or managers) to director of engineering to VP of engineering. At Google, this maps to L6 manager through L8 director to VP levels. Compensation roughly doubles from EM to director level at major companies. Some engineering managers move laterally into staff or principal engineer roles if they prefer the individual contributor track. Others transition to CTO roles at startups.