Senior Engineering Manager

Cloudflare, Inc

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TX
Salary
$220,000–$303,000 / yr
Posted
119 days ago
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Above market

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About Cloudflare, Inc

Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.

Cloudflare, Inc currently has 110 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineering Manager

The Senior Engineering Manager - Cloudforce One leads a team within the Threat Application Services group to build and scale the Cloudforce One Threat Events platform. This role involves overseeing the architectural direction and operational excellence of backend systems that integrate Indicators of Compromise into products like WAF and Gateway for automated mitigation. You will manage high-performing engineers, drive professional development, and collaborate with security researchers to transform complex threat data into automated customer experiences. Key responsibilities include managing complex data pipelines and delivering high-performance APIs. Required skills include experience with Go, JavaScript, distributed systems, and edge computing technologies like Workers and D1. Candidates should understand the Cyber Kill Chain and have experience with AI-assisted development and agentic workflows to solve large-scale security data problems.

What does a Engineering Manager earn?

Median $261250 from 167 postings across 44 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead a team of engineers to build and scale the Cloudforce One Threat Events platform.
  • Provide architectural direction and ensure operational excellence for high-performance threat intelligence APIs.
  • Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of threat intelligence data from ingestion to automated mitigation.
  • Drive the professional development and career growth of direct reports through mentorship and coaching.
  • Collaborate with product managers and security researchers to transform complex data into automated customer experiences.
  • Lead hiring efforts to expand engineering capabilities for next-generation agentic threat intelligence tools.
  • Manage technical debt and ensure systems meet strict latency and reliability requirements for enterprise security.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to address technical issues outside of standard working hours.

What we're looking for

  • Must be authorized to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws.
  • 8+ years of software development experience with a focus on Go, JavaScript, or distributed systems (preferred).
  • 8+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams for large-scale distributed security platforms (preferred).
  • Experience building high-performance APIs or platforms for threat intelligence, security operations, or large-scale data analytics (preferred).
  • Experience with AI-assisted development and agentic AI workflows (preferred).
  • Experience with edge computing, SQL-at-the-edge, and building systems that scale to trillions of signals (preferred).
  • Understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain and automating the ingestion and distribution of IOCs (preferred).
  • Strong mentorship and coaching skills to support the career growth of engineers in a specialized security domain (preferred).

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