Engineering Manager, Cloudflare

R2 Storage

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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

Senior and Expert level

Austin

London

Web performance and security platform

Be an early applicant

Web performance and security platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

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

Senior and Expert level

Austin

London

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Company mission

Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Experience leading a team and working across multiple teams to deliver results
Comfortable managing teams with broad responsibility scopes
Solid foundation in computer science and software engineering with strong competencies in software design, and building distributed systems
Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
Demonstrate a track record of managing 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/projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles

Desirable

Experience working with or leading teams around distributed systems
Operating knowledge of large scale storage systems and related infrastructure
Understanding of server hardware, performance expectations and limitations, and failure domains
Managing contributions to large open-source projects

What the job involves

You will lead a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products that bring security and speed to millions of internet users each day
You will play an active part in shaping product strategy based on what’s technically possible
You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint
You bring a passion for meeting business needs with building technically innovative solutions, and excel at shifting between the two—understanding how big-picture goals inform technical details, and vice-versa
You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience delivering scalable distributed systems
Most importantly, you will have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager

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 around 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.

The cloud infrastructure market reached $53 billion in 2022. While the Big 3 (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) own 65% of the market, that still leaves billions of dollars left for companies such as Cloudflare. Its ambitious and successful work is likely to continue being a crucial feature of the web, but in 2023, placed it in the crosshairs of hackers looking to exploit its infrastructure. The beginning of 2024 saw Cloudflare vow to bolster its security and patch vulnerabilities.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

16% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

Trustpilot (1.7)

Company

Company benefits

Minimum 8 weeks of paid parental leave
Equal opportunity employer
Unlimited paid time off policy
Work from home opportunities
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
401(k) plans
Family planning and fertility program
Gym discounts
Commuter Benefits Program

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Lee Holloway

(Lead Engineer)

Lee started 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

(President & COO)

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

(CEO)

Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare as CEO in March 2009.

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