Engineering Manager, Cloudflare
R2 Storage
$220-303k
Salary based on candidates based in New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California and may differ by other locations + Cloudflare’s equity plan
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Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$220-303k
Salary based on candidates based in New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California and may differ by other locations + Cloudflare’s equity plan
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience, with experience building or operating developer-facing data systems (object stores, databases, message queues, or similar)
- Experience leading engineering teams, either as a manager or as a senior technical lead. We are open to both experienced managers and strong engineers stepping into management
- A track record of shipping developer-facing features where API design, ergonomics, and migration experience meaningfully impacted adoption
- Comfort engaging directly with developers through customer calls, community forums, blog posts, or open-source. You're energized by understanding how developers actually use your product
- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts. The Gateway codebase is primarily TypeScript on Cloudflare Workers, with Rust in adjacent services
Desirable
- Experience with S3-compatible APIs, object storage systems, or cloud storage platforms
- Experience building or improving data migration tools where the goal was making a complex process feel simple
- Experience working with edge networks or CDN architecture
- Experience growing a team through hiring while delivering on an ambitious roadmap
What the job involves
- The Gateway team owns the surface area that developers interact with: the S3-compatible API, Workers bindings, data migration tools, public buckets, custom domains, event notifications, and the tooling that ties it all together
- R2 is experiencing explosive growth with some of the most demanding workloads on the internet, and there is still a lot to build. If a developer touches R2, they're touching code the Gateway team wrote
- As the Engineering Manager for the R2 Gateway team, you will own the developer experience of R2
- You will lead and grow the team, setting technical direction and hiring to expand
- Your team is responsible for a wide surface area, from API compatibility and Workers integration to data migration and custom domains, and you'll thrive on navigating across these domains
- You will be the face of R2 for developers: engaging with customers on Discord, joining calls with R2's largest accounts, writing blog posts, and often being the go-to person for internal teams building on R2
- You will drive a roadmap that balances feature delivery with the reliability and performance work that keeps R2 trustworthy, shipping features that leverage Cloudflare's global network in ways other object stores cannot
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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