Program Manager II, Engineering - Sensor Foundation (Hybrid)

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: We're investing in program managers who are energetic, eager to learn, flexible and capable of managing large scale/complex engineering projects in a fast-paced environment through innovative AI-enhanced approaches. As an Operations Program Manager, you'll be responsible for directly supporting and engaging in the work, teams and projects of the Sensor Foundations Platform Group. This group extends CrowdStrike's mission of "stopping breaches" by building robust sensor infrastructure, platform engineering capabilities, and cloud services that power our endpoint security platform. We're seeking an Operations Program Manager to transform how we manage complex sensor platform engineering programs through AI-enhanced workflows and traditional program leadership. You'll directly support the Sensor Foundations Platform Group's platform engineering, cloud engineering, and sensor core teams while building intelligent systems that revolutionize program management practices across CrowdStrike's engineering organization. This role combines hands-on program leadership (managing large platform and cloud engineering teams across geo-locations) with developing AI-powered solutions that automate routine tasks, surface insights, and enhance decision-making for sensor infrastructure and platform engineering programs. You'll work closely across functional teams and across geo-locations in Europe and the United States to collaborate and ensure dependencies are well known, critical issues are identified and driven to resolution. This role is hybrid, on-site in our Sunnyvale Office. Candidate should be comfortable visiting the office two-three times a week and should be within commutable distance (within 30-miles). What You'll Do: Program & Operations Management (70%): Partner and facilitate directly with platform engineering, cloud engineering, and sensor core teams at all levels; from debugging deployment issues with engineers to providing executive updates on project initiatives. Demonstrate technical fluency in architecture, cloud infrastructure, build systems, and platform engineering practices in order to align with business objectives and drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines. Drive operational decision-making processes, facilitating discussions between engineering teams to resolve architectural challenges, infrastructure dependencies, and build system optimizations, exercising sound judgment in decisions involving people, data, and technology trade-offs. Create and drive operation schedules for sensor foundations activities, working with engineering management on task assignments and managing progress of portfolio phases through detailed implementation tasks, including dependencies within and across Product and Platform Groups. Collaborate with multiple worldwide business units (including platform engineers, cloud engineers, SREs, product management, and other engineering teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate process involvement, goals, expectations, and deliverables for sensor infrastructure programs, ensuring alignment with strategic imperatives and customer-facing security capabilities. Proactively track status of platform engineering activities and ensure schedules and priorities are met for sensor releases, infrastructure scaling, and build system improvements. Ensure critical infrastructure issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated appropriately, creatively addressing complex problems and managing risks at both project and cross-portfolio levels. Manage daily/weekly communication and status reporting for complex sensor platform activities. Support distributed teams and cross-functional partners on frameworks and shared accountability, synthesizing processes to drive aligned, executable outcomes across the organization. AI Tooling Creation (30%): Build AI-powered dashboards and automated reporting systems using Claude skills and agentic workflows for operations monitoring and insights. Create intelligent integrations between CS business, Jira, GitLab, monitoring tools, and build systems that surface organizational health and procedure risks automatically. Develop AI agents that proactively identify process and team bottlenecks, lack of resource utilization, team organizational health, and resource scaling opportunities. What You'll Need: Program Management Excellence: 5+ years managing complex platform engineering and infrastructure programs with 100+ engineers. Jira proficiency and Agile/Scrum methodology experience. Proven track record owning programs/portfolios of products/features, scoping requi