Top Cybersecurity Jobs in Austin, TX

Conduct applied cybersecurity research and prototype development for threat hunting and adversary detection. Support a machine learning project, contribute to R&D initiatives, and learn threat-hunting methodologies through team shadowing. The role requires programming experience, cybersecurity interest, technical adaptability, teamwork, and the ability to complete tasks independently. Work is hybrid in Austin, Texas, or Arlington, Virginia, with a 40-hour weekly commitment during summer 2027.

Leads CrowdStrike’s global 24/7 Digital Operations Center across multiple sites and regions. Owns operational strategy, staffing, tooling, policies, monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Directs critical incident escalation, crisis activation, post-incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions. Develops DOC leaders and staff, manages resource recommendations and budgets, maintains procedures and incident documentation, and reports performance to senior leadership. Partners with engineering, SRE, IT, and enterprise leaders to improve resilience and operational effectiveness.

Lead and develop distributed engineering teams building endpoint security sensor components across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Own the team roadmap, architecture, delivery, testing, performance, code quality, and safe releases. Guide systems-level development involving file systems, memory, processes, networking, and OS internals. Coach engineers, drive cross-team alignment, and support secure, reliable, high-performance software deployment at scale.

Design and develop AI capabilities for CrowdStrike’s cross-platform endpoint sensor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. Responsibilities include operationalizing machine learning models, building telemetry pipelines for training and inference, integrating features with core OS subsystems, debugging performance and memory issues, and leading architecture, delivery, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

Own the strategy and roadmap for integrating third-party security controls into CrowdStrike’s Exposure Management platform. Lead connector ecosystems, exploitability scoring, and asset-level risk modeling using vulnerability data, cloud context, control signals, and adversary tactics. Partner with engineering, data science, threat intelligence, customers, and sales teams; define platform metrics; represent the product externally; and mentor product managers. The role requires deep offensive security, vulnerability management, cloud security, API integration, and cross-functional product strategy expertise.

Design and implement core features for a lightweight macOS security sensor, collaborate cross-platform with teams, own feature lifecycle from design through delivery, debug low-level memory and performance issues, and mentor distributed engineers while aligning sensor architecture with broader Falcon Host strategy.

Analyze in-the-wild exploits and perform deep reverse engineering to track adversaries. Build detection, automation, and classification frameworks; develop host/network signatures and tooling. Produce high-quality intelligence reports and briefings, collaborate across teams, and contribute to mitigation and large-scale hunting efforts.

Lead strategy and execution for CrowdStrike's Identity Protection product: detect and prioritize identity risk across human and non-human identities, define identity graph models, drive remediation automation and verification, and surface identity risk across the security stack. Use AI agents and rapid prototyping to iterate specs and partner with engineering, customers, and stakeholders to deliver usable identity risk solutions.

Lead product strategy and roadmap for AI-native capabilities in CrowdStrike's Next-Gen SIEM. Collaborate with engineering, data science, research, marketing, sales, and support to design, deliver, and position AI-driven detection, investigation, and prevention features. Conduct competitive analysis, define use cases, and engage customers to inform product direction while supporting go-to-market and cross-functional execution.

Develop and maintain CrowdStrike's macOS sensor using C/C++ and Swift. Design and deliver core endpoint features across OS subsystems (file system, memory, process, networking), optimize for concurrency, performance, and reliability, own features end-to-end, collaborate with distributed teams, and troubleshoot customer-reported issues.