Observability Platform Engineering Manager

Webhosting; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Observability, to lead a high-velocity, customer-obsessed team focused on making telemetry discoverable and actionable. The role spans multiple locations, including Austin, NY, Lisbon, and London, and requires deep experience with complex, data-driven platforms.

The candidate will define technical and product vision, mentor engineers, and grow a scalable observability platform across distributed teams, emphasizing reliability and rapid

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of relevant industry experience.
• At least 4 years leading software engineering teams.
• Proven track record shipping and operating large-scale systems.

Responsibilities

• Define technical and product vision with PMs and engineers.
• Build and own an observability platform for AI-driven ecosystems.
• Own SLOs, incident response, and debt management.
• Hire, mentor, and grow senior engineers and foster an inclusive team.
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to surface meaningful data.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People management

Observability experience

System design

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Kibana

ClickHouse

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Observability, to lead a high-velocity, customer-obsessed team focused on making telemetry discoverable and actionable. The role spans multiple locations, including Austin, NY, Lisbon, and London, and requires deep experience with complex, data-driven platforms.

The candidate will define technical and product vision, mentor engineers, and grow a scalable observability platform across distributed teams, emphasizing reliability and rapid