# Engineering Manager, SDET - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) (Hybrid)

Hiring organization: [CrowdStrike](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crowdstrike)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/406fff31-3a64-4020-b1ce-95d52b15349b

Listed on CrowdStrike's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Management
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA
- Salary: 140000 – 215000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead a team of test automation engineers building validation frameworks for a massive-scale AI security platform processing millions of events per second. This role blends hands-on coding and test architecture with people leadership, demanding both deep technical chops in distributed systems and the ability to grow and mentor a high-performing team.

_Our summary, not CrowdStrike's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Cypress, Docker, gRPC, Java, JavaScript, Jest, JUnit, Kubernetes, Playwright, PostgreSQL, Python, Redis, REST APIs, TestNG, TypeScript

## Required

- 10+ years in software development or SDET roles
- 3+ years engineering management leading SDET or quality engineering teams
- Production-quality test framework development
- Hands-on distributed systems debugging
- Cloud SaaS testing frameworks at scale
- Testing strategy definition and execution
- One or more of: Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Cloud distributed systems experience (Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka)
- AWS, GCP, or OCI cloud services
- Testing tools and frameworks (Jest, Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, TestNG)
- CI/CD pipeline integration with automated testing
- Docker and Kubernetes containerization
- REST and/or gRPC API testing
- High-volume data systems testing
- Team hiring, development, and retention
- Technical and non-technical communication
- AI technologies for decision-making and workflow enhancement

## Nice to have

- Cybersecurity company or security product experience
- AI/ML security challenges and mitigation understanding
- Low-latency gRPC and event-driven messaging (Kafka, Pulsar)
- Chaos engineering and resilience testing tools
- UI test automation and front-end frameworks
- Performance testing and load generation at scale
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, GCP, or Azure hands-on experience
- AI and agentic tools for testing automation
- Shared testing infrastructure platform ownership
- Quality culture building from the ground up
- Open source contributions

Apply on CrowdStrike's site: https://crowdstrike.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/crowdstrikecareers/job/USA---Sunnyvale-CA/Engineering-Manager--SDET---AI-Detection-and-Response--AIDR---Hybrid-_R29846