Engineering Manager, Cloudflare Network Interconnect

Cloudflare, Inc

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Austin, TX
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68 days ago
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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Cloudflare Network Interconnect

Engineering Manager, Cloudflare Network Interconnect As an Engineering Manager on the CNI team, you will lead, mentor, and coach a distributed team of Software Engineers while shaping their technical vision and culture. You will manage the lifecycle of production services by overseeing on-call rotations, handling customer escalations, and driving reliability and automation improvements. The role involves collaborating with Product Managers to prioritize roadmaps and making critical design decisions for systems that connect enterprise customers directly to the network via private interconnects. Key requirements include a technical background in IP networking, including BGP, Layer 3 routing, and cross-connect technologies. You will work with provisioning systems, monitoring tools, and distributed systems while utilizing AI-assisted engineering tools. Experience with Go, Python, Rust, C, or C++ is preferred to support the infrastructure powering Magic Transit and Zero Trust services.

What you'll do

  • Hire, mentor, and coach a distributed team of software engineers to support their professional growth.
  • Shape the team's technical vision and culture while managing its roadmap in coordination with product leaders.
  • Evaluate technical trade-offs and contribute to design decisions for network infrastructure systems.
  • Manage production services by organizing on-call rotations and overseeing incident response and customer escalations.
  • Drive reliability and automation improvements across all team systems and services.
  • Coordinate with internal stakeholders and partner teams to execute cross-functional initiatives.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager for a team of Software and Systems Engineers (preferred).
  • Proven track record in hiring, onboarding, and professional development of engineering teams (preferred).
  • Technical background in IP networking including BGP, Layer 3 routing, and physical/virtual interconnect technologies (preferred).
  • Experience building or operating provisioning and automation systems for network infrastructure (preferred).
  • Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging distributed systems (preferred).
  • Experience managing on-call rotations for production services with direct customer impact (preferred).
  • Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into daily workflows (preferred).
  • Export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

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