About the Department
The Cloudflare Gateway team builds the tools that keep the world's largest enterprises secure. As part of Cloudflare One, our team is responsible for developing high-performance security services that intercept and inspect traffic at the edge. We operate at a massive scale, processing millions of requests per second to protect users from malware, phishing, and data exfiltration. We are a team of curious, principled engineers who value transparency and technical excellence.
The Role
As an Engineering Manager for the Gateway team, you will lead a group of talented software engineers dedicated to both scaling our security products and driving the development of new features. You will be responsible for the growth and well-being of your team, the delivery of complex technical roadmaps, and the reliability of services that our customers depend on every second. You will act as a bridge between product requirements and technical execution, ensuring we build sustainable, high-quality systems.
Key Responsibilities
- People Leadership: Mentor and coach a diverse team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, psychological safety, and high performance.
- Technical Delivery: Own the end-to-end execution of the team's roadmap, ensuring projects are delivered with high quality and align with Cloudflare's long-term architectural goals.
- Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management and diverse stakeholders across the company to define requirements, prioritize the backlog, and communicate progress.
- Operational Excellence: Drive improvements in system reliability and on-call health, ensuring the team maintains high availability for mission-critical gateway services.
Required:
- Proven Leadership: Experience managing software engineering teams, preferably in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of developing talent and leading through technical challenges.
- Communication: Ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Operational Mindset: Experience maintaining production services and a commitment to building observable, reliable systems.
Desirable:
- Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS), or high-performance proxy technologies.
- Technical Stack: Familiarity with Rust or Go.
- Domain Experience: Background in the cybersecurity or Zero Trust space.
- Team Management: Experience managing remote or geographically distributed teams.
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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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We are committed to developing a global team that is distributed with a flexible working approach. Doing this equitably and inclusively is essential to our success. Visit our careers site for more on 'How & Where We Work.'
