Senior Engineering Manager

CloudFlare; United States; Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health & Welfare Benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for its Billing Engineering Team. You will lead a team responsible for building and maintaining Cloudflare’s billing and payments infrastructure, enabling scalable revenue through high-reliability systems.

You will guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, finance, data science, and operations to align technical work with business objectives in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of senior/staff engineers.
• Ability to align technical directions with business goals.
• Proven track record delivering complex backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers building Cloudflare’s billing and payments infrastructure.
• Oversee the rebuild of the billing platform and design scalable, reliable financial systems.
• Collaborate with product, finance, data science, and operations to meet business goals.
• Mentor and develop engineers, set expectations, and drive performance.

Skills

Team leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Backend systems

APIs design

Mentoring engineers

Strategic planning

Communication skills

Hiring & onboarding

Job description

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.

About the department

Cloudflare’s Billing Engineering Team is at the heart of every product launch, campaign, and initiative that Cloudflare undertakes. We build and maintain critical systems for billing, payments, usage metering, aggregation, invoicing and revenue recognition — powering billions in revenue and serving millions of customers.

Currently we're rebuilding our entire billing platform, designing a metering and aggregation layer that scales effortlessly while ensuring financial accuracy. This is high-impact, high-stakes work that touches all Cloudflare’s cutting-edge products like AI, Zero Trust, Edge Compute, Bot Management, DDoS Protection, etc.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team of talented, collaborative engineers working across Cloudflare’s ecosystem. You’ll navigate multiple high-profile projects, foster a culture of proactive communication and continuous learning, and drive technical excellence.

If you thrive on solving hard challenges at the intersection of financial infrastructure and distributed systems, this is your opportunity to make a massive impact while growing with us.

What you'll do You will lead a team of talented engineers responsible for building and maintaining Cloudflare’s billing and payments infrastructure. You will oversee the development of scalable, high-reliability financial infrastructure that handles everything related to Cloudflare’s revenue. Your work will directly support billions in revenue and millions of customers while enabling new product launches across Cloudflare.

You will play a key role in rebuilding our entire billing platform, designing a next-generation financial infrastructure that ensures financial accuracy and seamless performance. Leading a team of skilled engineers, you will drive the execution of complex technical initiatives, ensuring our architecture is resilient, scalable, and future-proof.

Beyond technical execution, you will focus on growing and mentoring a high-performing engineering team. You will set clear expectations, provide thoughtful feedback, and create an environment where engineers can thrive. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, finance, data science, operations and support departments to align technical decisions with business objectives. Your ability to communicate effectively, manage priorities, and navigate a fast-paced environment will be critical in driving success.

This role is an opportunity to make a lasting impact at the intersection of financial infrastructure and distributed systems. You will help shape the future of Cloudflare, ensuring it can support the company’s rapid growth and evolving product ecosystem.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Experience leading a team or multiple teams of senior and staff engineers.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, driving alignment, and clearly creating and communicating technical direction for large cross-company efforts.
• Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds the backend systems and frontend parts of the product.
• Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
• Comfortable building developer-loved APIs that scale.
• Demonstrate a track record of leading a team including hiring, on-boarding, and professional development.
• You inspire your team to reach higher.
• You’re as good as explaining “why” as you are “how”.
• Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages.
• Comfortable managing teams/projections with tight deadlines and short release cycles.

Bonus Points

• Experience building massive distributed systems.
• Experience leading teams working on areas of financial infrastructure, payments, billing, and data infrastructure.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

Equity

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

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.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx 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
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• 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.

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