About the dept.
Cloudflare's Infrastructure Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month. We ensure that all of the new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing, global customer base.
What you'll do
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join Cloudflare who will be responsible for the data, tools, forecasts, and platforms that support Capacity Planning and other functions. You will lead a team of passionate and talented full stack and data engineers that develop the forecasts and visualizations that ensure we support demand growth while continually improving our operating margins.
Working in partnership with Planners and Data Analysts from our Capacity Planning team, your team will build, operationalize, and scale the tools, data pipelines, forecast models and visualizations needed to optimize our infrastructure spend. You will also lead the engineers responsible for our Maintenance Optimizer application: a Maintenance Coordination System based on a Graph detailing every interface on every device, and all of their connections, for the entire Cloudflare network.
You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions. You excel to understand how big-picture goals inform technical details. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment. You have experience scaling machine learning models (forecasting at scale). You build great relationships with your (internal) customers and deeply understand their needs. Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- At least 3 years of management experience
- At least 8 years of hands on software development experience on meaningfully complex systems
- Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds the backend bits and frontend widgets
- Technical expert who can guide and develop the team in their architectural and coding skills
- Ability to do deep code reviews that allow for ongoing employee development and technical excellence in the products you ship.
- Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
- Demonstrate a track record of leading 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/projections with tight deadlines and short release cycles
- Strong verbal and written English language skills
- Experience with operationalizing and scaling ML Forecasting models
- Experience with DCIM, CMDB, IPAM, and other Data Center and Asset Lifecycle Management tools is a plus
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $225,000 - $275,000
- For New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $213,000 - $261,000.
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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