Engineering Manager, Network Interconnect (CNI)

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Job summary

Cloudflare in Austin, TX seeks an Engineering Manager for the Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI) team. You will hire, mentor, and guide a distributed group of software engineers, aligning with product managers to define vision, priorities, and cross-functional goals in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead with curiosity and empathy, drive reliability, and foster a culture that embraces AI-assisted tooling to ship improvements quickly and safely.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as an Engineering Manager for a team of Software and Systems Engineers.
• Track record of managing a team including hiring, onboarding, and professional development.
• Excel at planning and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
• Technical background in IP networking: BGP, Layer 3 routing, physical and virtual interconnect technologies (cross-connects, VLANs, partner fabric integrations).

Responsibilities

• Hiring and developing a high-performing team and supporting individual growth.
• Applying technical experience to evaluate tradeoffs, contribute to design decisions, and help drive resolution to customer-facing issues, while creating the space for engineers within the team to lead design and implementation.
• Taking responsibility for the team's production services by organizing on-call rotations, handling customer escalations, and overseeing incident response and follow-up.
• Driving reliability and automation improvements across the team's systems and services.
• Coordinating with partner and stakeholder teams on cross-functional initiatives.

Skills

Engineering Management

Team Leadership

IP Networking (BGP)

Network Provisioning/Automation

Distributed Systems Monitoring

On-call Experience

AI Tools in Engineering

Technical Communication

Go

Python

Rust

C

C++

Tools

Go

Python

Rust

C

C++

Job description

Cloudflare in Austin, TX seeks an Engineering Manager for the Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI) team. You will hire, mentor, and guide a distributed group of software engineers, aligning with product managers to define vision, priorities, and cross-functional goals in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead with curiosity and empathy, drive reliability, and foster a culture that embraces AI-assisted tooling to ship improvements quickly and safely.