Senior Engineering Director, Security Products

Cloudflare; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Stock Options

PTO

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Engineering Director to lead multiple engineering teams within our Security Products Engineering group. You will drive strategy, leadership, and performance, focusing on delivering reliable cybersecurity products and systems.

You will report to the VP of Engineering for Security Products and mentor managers and engineers worldwide. The role emphasizes building an engineering culture that values curiosity, collaboration, and customer focus, with cross‑regional

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineering managers.
• Experience managing complex projects with external dependencies.
• Results and metrics driven.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience hiring great engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams of engineers delivering customer facing products.
• Partner with Product Management to define and execute a strategy and achieve audacious goals.
• Lead and mentor engineering managers and engineers across the organization.
• Work with peers around the world to drive cross organizational projects and develop best practices.
• Foster a culture that is results oriented without sacrificing curiosity, kindness, and empathy for customers and co-workers alike.
• Define metrics that guide the engineering teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in your teams

Skills

Engineering leadership

Project management

Metrics driven

Communication skills

Customer focus

Technical direction

Job description

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: Austin, New York, Lisbon, London

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Director to lead a team of engineers within our Security Products Engineering group. This role will have a strong focus on delivering effective and reliable cybersecurity products and systems. This includes strategy, leadership, technical guidance and building engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have a deep technical background, proven leadership experience, and a passion for developing people and cultivating a strong engineering culture. This role reports to the VP of Engineering for Security Products and is expected to work with peers to drive results and improvement in alignment with the group’s strategy.

Who you are

• Experience managing engineering managers.
• Experience managing complex projects with external dependencies
• Results and metrics driven
• A strong attention to detail
• Great communication skills
• Experience hiring great engineers
• A kind and generous attitude towards customers and coworkers alike
• Ability to set technical direction and own decisions

What you’ll do

• Lead multiple teams of engineers delivering customer facing products.
• Partner with Product Management to define and execute a strategy and achieve audacious goals.
• Lead and mentor engineering managers and engineers across the organization.
• Work with peers around the world to drive cross organizational projects and develop best practices.
• Foster a culture that is results oriented without sacrificing curiosity, kindness, and empathy for customers and co-workers alike.
• Define metrics that guide the engineering teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in your teams

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Austin based hires: Estimated annual salary of $300,000 - $380,000
• For New York based hires: Estimated annual salary of $330,000 - $415,000
• For Lisbon based hires: Estimated annual salary of €145,000 - €180,000
• For London based hires: Estimated annual salary of £200,000 - £250,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project : In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process. This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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