Senior Engineering Manager - Workers KV

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our team. You will work with a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products that bring security and speed to millions of internet users each day. You will play an active part in shaping product features and improving performance to make Workers KV the best it can be. You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint. You will change the way people build applications. 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 and have experience in delivering scalable distributed systems. Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager.

Requirements

At least 4 years of recent professional experience with TypeScript or Go.
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
Deep understanding of the web and technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript and WebAssembly.
Strong communications skills - especially building a shared understanding of systems among a team's members.
Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds distributed systems.
Navigate uncertainty and ambiguity - many of the things we build have never been built before anywhere and you are expected to find a way to deliver.
Excel at planning, creating teams, and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
Comfortable building developer-loved APIs that scale.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience building high performance distributed systems
Experience delivering and operating critical infrastructure for cloud platforms, especially serverless platforms
Deep Linux/UNIX systems, kernel, or networking knowledge
Contributions to large open source projects
Experience working with distributed storage and cache architectures
Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale Linux-based distributed system

Responsibilities

Play an active part in shaping product features and improving performance to make Workers KV the best it can be.
Make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint.
Change the way people build applications.
Build technical, innovative solutions to meet business needs.
Understand how big-picture goals inform technical details.
Deliver scalable distributed systems.
Lead and hire a team that builds distributed systems.
Navigate uncertainty and ambiguity to find a way to deliver.
Plan, create teams, and oversee execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
Build developer-loved APIs that scale.
Lead a team including hiring, on-boarding, and professional development.
Inspire your team to reach higher.
Explain the "why" as well as the "how".
Implement tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolve blockages.

Benefits

Workers KV team delivers Cloudflare's global, low-latency, key-value data storage.
KV lets developers store and retrieve data globally.
With Workers KV, you can build dynamic and performant APIs and websites that support high read volumes with low latency.
KV is integrated with Cloudflare Workers but can also be used via our REST API.
Project Galileo
Athenian Project
1.1.1.1

Stand Out From the Crowd

Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.

Upload and Match Resume