Engineering Manager

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.

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 using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal

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 hugely 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.

About the Team

Cloudflare Radar helps people understand what is happening on the Internet. The team builds the systems behind radar.cloudflare.com, Cloudflare Speed Test, our Internet measurement and analytics platforms, and the data pipelines that turn signals from Cloudflare’s global network into useful insights. We publish analysis of DDoS attacks and other Internet events, power recurring reports such as the Cloudflare Year in Review, and build tools that make large and complex datasets understandable.

Cloudflare operates one of the world’s largest networks and observes billions of signals across it. A major part of the team’s next chapter is figuring out how to turn more of that unique perspective into useful, reliable and consumable insights — improving the products we already have, helping other Cloudflare products make better decisions, and identifying entirely new opportunities.

This is a team working at the intersection of distributed systems, large-scale data, Internet measurement and product engineering. We are a tight-knit team that communicates and collaborates regularly. We celebrate our achievements, support each other when we make mistakes, and hold each other and our work to the highest standard.

About the role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Radar & Insights engineering team. You will lead a team of approximately eight engineers responsible for some of Cloudflare’s most visible Internet measurement products and the systems behind them. You will be responsible for the people, execution and engineering quality of the team while partnering closely with Product Management and engineering teams across Cloudflare.

This is a management role for someone who is deeply technically credible. You will not be expected to write most of the code, but you should be able to understand the systems your team operates, challenge architectural decisions, ask the right questions when something is going wrong, and step into a technical problem when the situation calls for it.

At the same time, we are looking for a manager, not a tech lead with direct reports. Your success will be measured by the quality and output of the team you build, the engineers you develop, and the systems and products they deliver.

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

What you'll do

• Manage, coach and grow a team of engineers working across Cloudflare Radar, Speed Test andInternet measurement, analytics and large-scale data systems.
• Own the team’s execution: establish clear priorities, create predictable delivery, and give engineers the context and autonomy to own meaningful areas of the product.
• Improve the quality, reliability and usability of the data and insights surfaced through Radar and the systems that produce them.
• Help evolve Cloudflare Speed Test and the measurement capabilities behind it.
• Partner closely with Product Management to shape the roadmap and turn broad opportunities into clear engineering problems.
• Help the team make the enormous volume of signals available across Cloudflare’s network more useful and consumable.
• Explore how Cloudflare’s unique view of Internet activity can improve existing products, power new experiences and create entirely new businesses.
• Own the operational health of the team’s systems, including observability, incident response, data quality and long-term reliability.
• Develop technical leaders within the team and create space for engineers to lead architecture and implementation.
• Work across Cloudflare to resolve dependencies and bring complex technical and product decisions to closure.

Responsibilities

We want you to love it here. This role is a great fit for you if:

• You have led and developed high-performing engineering team(s) and can point to what that team shipped and how the people on it grew.
• You are technically credible with experienced engineers. You can review a design, understand the trade-offs in a distributed system or data platform, and recognize when a technical problem needs deeper investigation.
• You are comfortable managing a team working across several related technical areas and can create clarity without requiring every problem to fit neatly into a single box.
• You care deeply about reliability and quality, particularly when the output of a system is data that people use to understand the Internet.
• You have strong product judgment and enjoy working with Product Management to decide what is worth building, what needs improvement and what should not be built at all.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and with finding structure in areas where the opportunity is clearer than the roadmap.
• You communicate clearly, give direct feedback, and can explain complex technical decisions to both engineers and non-engineers.

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for production software and services.
• Strong technical grounding in distributed systems, data-intensive systems, Internet infrastructure or adjacent areas.
• Experience operating systems where correctness, reliability and data quality matter as much as feature delivery.
• Experience building or operating large-scale data pipelines, analytics platforms, telemetry systems or measurement infrastructure.
• A track record of hiring, developing and retaining strong engineers.
• Experience partnering closely with Product Management to shape and execute a roadmap.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Internet protocols and infrastructure such as HTTP, DNS, BGP, routing or network measurement.
• Experience working with very large telemetry or Internet-scale datasets.
• Experience building analytics or insights products that turn complex underlying data into something useful for a broad audience.
• Experience working on products where the underlying data or infrastructure creates opportunities beyond the product’s original scope.
• Familiarity with Cloudflare Radar, Internet measurement research, or the broader ecosystem of tools used to understand Internet performance, availability and security

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary of €74,000 - €111,000

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.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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