Senior Engineering Manager — Network Connectivity

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

The Egress team was formed to own a very important aspect of Cloudflare's Connectivity Cloud : egress connectivity for our vast portfolio of products. The team build and operate cutting edge network software infrastructure used by a growing number of Cloudflare products to connect to any destination from Cloudflare's network. Among the products powered by this technology is Dedicated Egress IP Connectivity , WARP, Cloudflare One/Zero Trust, and Cloudflare's egress proxy for the iCloud Private Relay product.

Requirements

5+ years experience as an Engineering Manager for a team of Software and Systems Engineers.
Demonstrate a track record of managing a team including hiring, onboarding, and professional development.
Inspire your team to reach higher.
Excel at planning and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
Experience/interest in Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking
Experience/interest in network performance monitoring and tuning.
Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging distributed systems.
Experience participating in and/or managing an on-call rotation for production services with direct customer impact.
Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your workflow.
Clarity in written and verbal communication.

Nice To Haves

You're as good at explaining "why" as you are "how".
You are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone.
You are comfortable in a fast-paced but sensible work environment.
You value curiosity and empathy and lead with these values.

Responsibilities

Hire, mentor, and coach a distributed team of Software Engineers.
Play a key role in developing the team and shaping its culture and technical vision.
Work closely with Product Managers and other Engineering leaders to communicate the vision, prioritize the team's roadmap, and achieve cross-functional objectives.
Understand the technical implications of work across a distributed software network infrastructure to influence scope, work across teams, and help unblock projects: from data planes responsible for delivery of critical customer traffic to distributed control-plane services.
Apply technical experience to evaluate tradeoffs, contribute to design decisions, and help drive resolution to customer-facing issues, while creating space for engineers to lead design, implementation, and delivery.
Take responsibility for the team's production services by organizing on-call rotations, handling customer escalations, and overseeing incident response and follow-up.
Drive reliability and automation improvements across the platform.
Use tools and processes to convey project status and resolve blockages.