About the Job
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 Intern...
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 ...
Available Locations: Lisbon | London | Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our team. You will work with a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products that bring security and speed to millions of internet users each day. You will play an active part in shaping product features and improving performance to make Workers KV the best it can be. You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint. You will change the way people build applications.
You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions. You excel to understand how big-picture goals inform technical details. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience in delivering scalable distributed systems. Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager.
Required Skills & Abilities
Strong communications skills - especially building a shared understanding of systems among a team's members.
Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds distributed systems.
Navigate uncertainty and ambiguity - many of the things we build have never been built before anywhere and you are expected to find a way to deliver.
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
At least 4 years of recent professional experience with TypeScript or Go.
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
Deep understanding of the web and technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript and WebAssembly
Experience building high performance distributed systems
Experience delivering and operating critical infrastructure for cloud platforms, especially serverless platforms
Deep Linux/UNIX systems, kernel, or networking knowledge
Contributions to large open source projects
Experience working with distributed storage and cache architectures
Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale Linux-based distributed system
