Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Cloudflare's R2 Storage team as an Engineering Manager and lead a team of engineers building innovative products that enhance security and speed for millions of internet users daily. You will actively contribute to product strategy, ensuring the company achieves ambitious engineering goals. This role requires experience leading backend teams, building distributed systems, and managing all aspects of team development. Cloudflare offers a competitive salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and various other perks. The ideal candidate will have a passion for combining business needs with technical innovation and a proven track record of successful team leadership.

Requirements

• Experience leading a team and working across multiple teams to deliver results
• Comfortable managing backend focused teams
• Solid foundation in computer science and software engineering with strong competencies in software design, and building distributed systems
• Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
• Demonstrate a track record of managing 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/projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products that bring security and speed to millions of internet users each day
• Play an active part in shaping product strategy based on what’s technically possible
• Make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint
• Bring a passion for meeting business needs with building technically innovative solutions, and excel at shifting between the two—understanding how big-picture goals inform technical details, and vice-versa
• Thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience delivering scalable distributed systems
• Have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with or leading teams around distributed systems
• Operating knowledge of large scale storage systems and related infrastructure
• Understanding of server hardware, performance expectations and limitations, and failure domains
• Deep Linux/UNIX systems knowledge
• Managing contributions to large open-source projects

Benefits

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $ 225,000 - $275 ,000
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $ 239,000 - $ 293,000
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $ 252,000 - $ 308,000
• Equity
• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental 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
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave