Engineering Manager, AI Platform & Incubation

CloudFlare; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 74,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Cloudflare in Lisbon is seeking an engineering leader to review designs, challenge architecture, and guide incubation projects. You will not write most of the code, but need to understand it well enough to review documents and estimates.

You will partner with Product Management to shape the roadmap, ensure Puppeteer/Playwright compatibility, develop leaders, manage cross‑team dependencies, and own billing mechanics for a billed service.

Qualifications

• 2+ years managing engineering teams.
• Experience owning a production service end to end, including on‑call rotation and incident review.
• Demonstrated experience growing engineers — promotions you supported and team lead development.
• Track record partnering with Product Management to set and defend a roadmap, including saying no.
• Excellent written communication for internal and public‑facing technical content.
• Experience hiring: writing job descriptions, running interview loops, calibrating a panel and closing candidates.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management to set direction: shape the roadmap, pressure-test scope, and make trade‑off calls for incubation delivery.
• Maintain surface integrity: Puppeteer and Playwright compatibility, CDP behavior aligned with local Chrome expectations, and Chrome version upgrade path credibility.
• Develop leaders and hand day‑to‑day delivery to engineers under your supervision.
• Resolve cross‑team dependencies with the Workers, Developer Platform, Security and Billing teams; drive decisions to closure.
• Own the commercial mechanics of a billed service: usage metering, quotas, plan limits, abuse protection and pricing input.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Technical communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Direct feedback

Design documentation

Operational excellence

Collaboration

Team growth

Tools

Puppeteer

Playwright

Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP)

Job description

Cloudflare in Lisbon is seeking an engineering leader to review designs, challenge architecture, and guide incubation projects. You will not write most of the code, but need to understand it well enough to review documents and estimates.

You will partner with Product Management to shape the roadmap, ensure Puppeteer/Playwright compatibility, develop leaders, manage cross‑team dependencies, and own billing mechanics for a billed service.