Senior Engineering Manager — Network Connectivity

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Cloudflare, a global Internet security and performance company, seeks an Engineering Manager for the Egress team. You will lead software and systems engineers, shape the roadmap, and ensure delivery across a distributed network powering many products.

We require 5+ years as an engineering manager, proven hiring and mentorship skills, and expertise in Layer 3/4 networking, network performance monitoring, on-call reliability, and clear communication. AI tools adoption is encouraged.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience.
• Proven ability to hire, onboard, and mentor engineers.
• Strong planning and execution to meet commitments.
• Experience with Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking.
• Experience with monitoring and tuning distributed systems.
• Comfort with on-call rotations and incident response.
• Willingness to adopt AI tools in workflow.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Communicate the vision and priorities with Product Managers and Engineering leads.
• Oversee design, implementation, and delivery across distributed software networks.
• Evaluate tradeoffs and influence scope to unblock projects.
• Manage on-call rotations and incident response.
• Drive reliability and automation improvements.
• Use tools to convey status and resolve blockages.

Skills

Engineering Management

Hiring & Onboarding

Roadmap Planning

Networking (Layer3/Layer4)

Distributed Systems

On-Call Management

AI Tools Adoption

Clear Communication

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.

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.

Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal or London, United Kingdom or Austin, Texas

About The Role

The Egress team was formed to own a very important aspect of Cloudflare's Connectivity Cloud: egress connectivity for our vast portfolio of products. The team build and operate cutting edge network software infrastructure used by a growing number of Cloudflare products to connect to any destination from Cloudflare's network. Among the products powered by this technology is Dedicated Egress IP Connectivity, WARP, Cloudflare One/Zero Trust, and Cloudflare's egress proxy for the iCloud Private Relay product.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with Product Managers and other Engineering leaders to communicate the vision, prioritize the team's roadmap, and achieve cross-functional objectives.
• Understanding the technical implications of work across a distributed software network infrastructure to influence scope, work across teams, and help unblock projects: from data planes responsible for delivery of critical customer traffic to distributed control-plane services.
• Applying technical experience to evaluate tradeoffs, contribute to design decisions, and help drive resolution to customer-facing issues, while creating space for engineers to lead design, implementation, and delivery.
• 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 platform
• Using tools and processes to convey project status and resolve blockages.

You are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone. You are comfortable in a fast-paced but sensible work environment. You value curiosity and empathy and lead with these values.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• 5+ years experience as an Engineering Manager for a team of Software and Systems Engineers.
• Demonstrate a track record of managing a team including hiring, onboarding, and professional development. You inspire your team to reach higher. You're as good at explaining "why" as you are "how".
• Excel at planning and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
• Experience/interest in Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking
• Experience/interest in network performance monitoring and tuning.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging distributed systems.
• Experience participating in and/or managing an on-call rotation for production services with direct customer impact.
• Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your workflow.
• Clarity in written and verbal communication.

Compensation

• For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary of €89,000-122,000.

Equity

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

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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