Engineering Manager - Security Platform

Rozgoo; Amer; Remote; EUR 161,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Director/Lead for the Security Platform team to architect and run secure, resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management across our global network. You will shape the PKI and machine/workload identity strategy and guide internal developers who rely on these services.

You’ll manage a team, plan long-term roadmaps, review designs and code, and mentor engineers to grow their careers. This role may require on-call duties outside standard hours.

Qualifications

• Team leadership/management; level and years of experience are flexible.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Software development and distributed systems design expertise.
• Strong security background with a focus on implementation, not policy/compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team in building and operating secure, resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management.
• Focus on strengthening/re-architecting internal PKI and machine/workload identity.
• Run and support the systems, both operationally and by helping internal developers use them.
• Organize and plan the team's long-term roadmap and day-to-day work.
• Review and sign off on designs, project plans, and code, providing guidance to ensure quality, resilience, and security.
• Mentor and grow the team's career development; delegate tasks as appropriate.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Security mindset

Distributed systems

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

• Atlanta, US
• Austin, US
• Denver, US
• New York, US
• Toronto, Canada
• Washington DC, US
• Seattle, WA
• Remote candidates within North America will also be considered.

About the Team

The Security Platform team is an infrastructure/developer tools group tasked with building and operating powerful, resilient, and secure infrastructure and systems that enable other engineering teams to deliver products to our customers efficiently and securely. We are responsible for secrets management, internal certificate authorities/PKI, machine and workload identity, and more. This is not a policy, audit, or compliance team, but rather an infrastructure engineering/software development one.

What You’ll Do

You’ll lead the team in building and operating secure and resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management, running across our network that spans more than 310 cities in over 120 countries. The team's focus is strengthening/re-architecting internal PKI and machine/workload identity. You’ll run and support the systems we build, both in an operational sense and by helping other internal developers use them.

You'll organize and plan the team's long-term roadmap and day-to-day work. You'll review and sign off on technical designs, project plans, and code; providing guidance to ensure quality, resilience, and security. You'll participate in design and implementation, personally leading projects as needed. You'll support the growth and career development of your team, delegating tasks as appropriate. People management responsibilities (performance management, compensation planning, etc) may be entirely in your hands or supported by senior management, depending on your level and preferences.

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Team leadership/management; level and years of experience are flexible.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Software development and distributed systems design expertise.
• Strong security background with a focus on implementation, not policy/compliance.

Bonus points

• Track record of contributing to open source security or distributed systems projects.
• Cryptography background and ability to work with cryptosystems at the primitives level.
• Experience with HSMs, TPMs, or other platform TEEs (e.g. AMD SEV, Intel SGX, Apple Secure Enclave).
• Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao, or similar.
• Linux/UNIX system administration proficiency.