Engineering Manager, Cloudflare
Infrastructure Data & ML Platforms
$213-275k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$213-275k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions
- You excel to understand how big-picture goals inform technical details
- You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment
- You have experience scaling machine learning models (forecasting at scale)
- You build great relationships with your (internal) customers and deeply understand their needs
- Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager
- At least 3 years of management experience
- At least 8 years of hands on software development experience on meaningfully complex systems
- Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds the backend bits and frontend widgets
- Technical expert who can guide and develop the team in their architectural and coding skills
- Ability to do deep code reviews that allow for ongoing employee development and technical excellence in the products you ship
- Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
- Demonstrate a track record of leading a team including hiring, on-boarding, and professional development. You inspire your team to reach higher. You’re as good as explaining “why” as you are “how”
- Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages
- Comfortable managing teams/projections with tight deadlines and short release cycles
- Strong verbal and written English language skills
- Experience with operationalizing and scaling ML Forecasting models
- Experience with DCIM, CMDB, IPAM, and other Data Center and Asset Lifecycle Management tools is a plus
What the job involves
- Cloudflare’s Infrastructure Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month
- We ensure that all of the new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing, global customer base
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join Cloudflare who will be responsible for the data, tools, forecasts, and platforms that support Capacity Planning and other functions
- You will lead a team of passionate and talented full stack and data engineers that develop the forecasts and visualizations that ensure we support demand growth while continually improving our operating margins
- Working in partnership with Planners and Data Analysts from our Capacity Planning team, your team will build, operationalize, and scale the tools, data pipelines, forecast models and visualizations needed to optimize our infrastructure spend
- You will also lead the engineers responsible for our Maintenance Optimizer application: a Maintenance Coordination System based on a Graph detailing every interface on every device, and all of their connections, for the entire Cloudflare network
Our take
Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with over 25 million global internet properties on its network.
Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.
This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.
And impressive third-quarter 2025 results show strong momentum, with revenue rising to $562 million from $430 million a year earlier. The company also raised its full-year guidance, underscoring confidence in continued growth. As demand for secure, cloud-based infrastructure keeps growing, Cloudflare's expanding platform and improving efficiency leave it well positioned to capture further gains in a rapidly growing market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Take-what-you-need vacation: We encourage employees to find a comfortable work-life balance by taking as many days off as they need while still being able to perform their jobs satisfactorily. (We really mean it!)
- Paid maternity & paternity leave: Our global parental leave policy allows up to sixteen paid weeks of bonding leave time for all qualifying new parents.
- Employee benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pension plans in accordance with the market practice in our locations.
- Commuter program: We are flexible about where we work and value connecting at the office. Our commuter benefits program is in place to support team members' commute to work via public transportation without the extra cost burden.
- Wellbeing: Global offerings that provide mental health, childcare and family forming support to our employees across our offices.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Lee Holloway
(Co-Founder & Lead Engineer)Lee began their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.
Michelle Zatlyn
(Co-Founder, President & Co-Chair)Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.
Matthew Prince
(Co-Founder & CEO)Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare in 2009, where he has served as CEO ever since.
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