Senior Engineering Manager, R2 Storage Infrastructure

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. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

Position Locations: Austin, TX | San Francisco, CA | Washington DC

About R2 Storage

Cloudflare R2 Storage allows developers to store large amounts of unstructured data without the costly egress bandwidth fees associated with typical cloud storage services. Our customers–both internal and external–bring a wide variety of workloads that we enable. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to help us continue achieving those goals.

What you'll do

You will lead 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 strategy based on what’s technically possible. You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint.

You 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. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience delivering scalable distributed systems. Most importantly, you will have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 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

Bonus Points

• 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

About the Department

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay