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Cloudflare, Inc. Engineering Manager - Zero Trust WARP Service in Seattle, Washington
About Us At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! Engineer Manager - WARP Edge Service What you'll do We are looking for an Engineer Manager to lead the team working on WARP's edge service, which uses Cloudflare's global network to securely route tunnelled traffic from millions of devices running to the Internet. You will play a key role in shaping the team's engineering strategy, working with other engineering teams, product management, and external stakeholders to implement customer-impacting features and meet the team's ambitious goals of quality, reliability, and high-availability. You will work closely with your team to maintain the code quality and to build solid, testable, and well-documented code. As a manager in our team, you will be expected to lead, inspire, and foster a culture of diversity. You will communicate clearly and with empathy, and work towards building a cohesive and collaborative team. You will be expected to interact with our customers and internal stakeholders, to identify gaps and areas of improvements in our product and processes alike, and to work with your own stakeholders to transform those into innovative, actionable, and achievable solutions. The team predominantly uses Rust to implement high-performance networking code that runs on our Linux-based edge. You will be most successful in this role if you have a strong understanding of networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, QUIC, H/3, proxying, etc.) and operational principles (observability, alerting, tracing, incident management, SLIs & SLOs, capacity planning, etc.) Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience Demonstrable experience leading a geographically distributed team Empathetic, proactive, and constructive communication skills, verbal and written Excellent operational principles (observability, alerting, tracing, incident management, SLIs & SLOs, capacity planning, etc.) Excel at planning, and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability A strong understanding of how VPN technologies work, and the trade-offs between privacy, security, and anonymity Strong understanding of networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, QUIC, H/3, proxying, etc.) Good understanding of, and experience with, security protocols and standards Good experience with debugging network-related problems Compensation Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location and experience. For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $233,000 For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $195,000 - $261,000 For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual