Engineering Manager, Edge SRE

About Us

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a normalized problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow while ensuring that every improvement no matter how small is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward youll fit right in.

Available Locations: London

About the Department

As part of the Cloudflare Infrastructure Engineering organization our platform SREs are primarily responsible for production reliability. SREs are based in locations in Asia Europe and the US enabling follow the sun coverage during daytime hours.

SREs are supported by all engineering teams at Cloudflare who participate in on call schedules for their services. The SRE teams facilitate remediation and follow up of production issues and mature the tooling to enable all engineering teams to self-service on production. Incident follow up work across all engineering teams is prioritized above product innovation and the impact of production incidents influences the priority.

SREs support two main environments: Edge SRE are focused on edge distribution where most client traffic is served. Core SRE are focused on the core services like control plane data pipeline and other supporting supporting services

Who you are

• You have 5 years of software engineering reliability or operations experience in a customer-focused environment.

• You have 2 years experience managing a team of 5 or more engineers on projects in the areas of: distributed systems tooling Linux Internetworking infrastructure security or infrastructure management

• You are comfortable collaborating and co-ordinating on cross-team projects and workflows

• You can provide a strong technical vision for systems and infrastructure teams

• You have experience building services and systems have successfully taken projects from inception to production and are comfortable diving in to provide leadership for major projects when needed

• You are capable of leading a discussion with upper management and are able to tailor the level of technical detail to suit your audience

What youll do

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Edge SRE team in London. You will lead and develop a team of SREs that are responsible for Cloudflare edge production and building the tools for all teams to understand and interact with it. You will play a lead role in driving our Platform initiatives for edge services and will be tasked with leading engineers who build tools and best practices for engineering teams to debug in production measure availability and performance indicators track and report on thresholds.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers who are working to keep the Cloudflare edge reliable and scalable

• Mentor grow and empower your team by giving them the skills confidence and motivation to make decisions

• Help the individuals on your team to build and execute personal development plans that align with Cloudflares goals and objectives

• Take an active role in prioritizing the roadmap for the SRE Org

• Drive cross-team and cross-org alignment in engineering infrastructure and product teams

• Partner with other Engineering Managers across Cloudflare to achieve reliability outcomes for their services

• Participate in deep technical design discussions within your team and across partner teams and ensure that were building the right systems and keeping the quality high

Examples of desirable skills knowledge and experience

• Hands-on experience with software or reliability engineering

• Experience leading and hiring a team that builds and runs tools and platforms

• Excel at planning and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability

• Incident root cause analysis and follow-ups

• Incident management

• Comfortable managing teams/projections with deadlines and short release cycles

• Experience using observability tools such as Jaeger OpenTracing ELK Prometheus Thanos Grafana Clickhouse

• Experience running and maturing distributed systems

• Familiarity working with Proxies DNS Databases Internet and Security

• Experience developing tools and APIs

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo : Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project : In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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.

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Required Experience:

Manager