Available Location(s): Austin, TX
Cloudflare is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Speed team.
The Speed team builds technology to measure and accelerate web experiences on Cloudflare. Our mission is to help our customers' websites get faster. The Speed team creates innovative new features like Fonts, Observatory and Speculation Hints, looks after mature systems at scale like Web Analytics, and manages a large pipeline of web performance data that can be used to help benchmark and improve other products.
As the engineering manager, you will play a key role in shaping the team's strategy, working with other leaders and teams to build products that customers love, and that meet the team's ambitious standards of quality, reliability, and scalability.
You will be expected to lead, inspire, and foster a culture of diversity. You will communicate clearly and with empathy, and work towards creating a cohesive high-performance team. You will be responsible for all aspects of team life - building roadmaps, running meetings, creating processes, hiring, and setting up engineers for success.
The team predominantly uses Go, Rust and Typescript and is familiar with browser APIs. Any prior experience in these technologies will make you well-suited for this role.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Experience building and leading a team, including hiring, coaching, and professional development
- A self-directing nature, keen to take ownership of projects from start to finish
- Experience coordinating projects across multiple teams
- Empathetic and clear communication skills, verbal and written
- Previous programming experience
- Knowledge of browser APIs and browser performance tooling (eg. Lighthouse)
- Strong data analysis skills, ideally with experience in Grafana, SQL or BigQuery
- Excellent technical leadership skills, driving for very high-quality and low-complexity code
- A drive for implementing tools, documentations, processes, instrumentation, and metrics to enhance the team's velocity and performance
Bonus points
- Experience building distributed systems
- Experience programming with Rust, Go, Typescript
- Experience with Cloudflare Workers
- Experience leading distributed teams
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
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
- 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
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident 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
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What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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