Senior Engineering Manager — Network Connectivity

Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal or London, United Kingdom or Austin, Texas

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

As an Engineering Manager on the Egress team you will hire, mentor, and coach a distributed team of Software Engineers. You will play a key role in developing the team and shaping its culture and technical vision. This includes:

• Working closely with Product Managers and other Engineering leaders to communicate the vision, prioritize the team's roadmap, and achieve cross-functional objectives.
• Understanding 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.
• Applying 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.
• Taking responsibility for the team's production services by organizing on-call rotations, handling customer escalations, and overseeing incident response and follow-up.
• Driving reliability and automation improvements across the platform
• Using tools and processes to convey project status and resolve blockages.

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.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• 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. You inspire your team to reach higher. You're as good at explaining "why" as you are "how".
• 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.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary of €89,000-122,000.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

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.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.