Engineering Manager, Front Line Platform

Cloudflare ,
London, Greater London
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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 trillions of requests per month. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all 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 recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list. 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! About the Department Cloudflare's Engineering Team builds and runs the software that serves 14 million HTTP requests per second on average. We also build and run the internal tools that builds and runs our software. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world's largest networks with data centers in more than 200 cities worldwide. What you'll do As Engineering Manager for the Front Line Platform (FLPLAT) you will lead the London-based team of engineers that develops the software platform responsible for routing, validating, and securely processing all 14 million/sec HTTP requests that hit the Cloudflare edge. This platform is a mix of open source systems such as NGINX with Lua, and increasingly our own code written in Rust, C++, Go, and Python. This unique role presents an opportunity to be at the nexus of the Cloudflare edge applications and operations, and to closely collaborate with other product and engineering teams in enabling their delivery. You will lead a team of passionate, talented engineers who are building innovative products that touch billions of web requests each day. In this role, you will introduce tools and processes to make our engineer's lives better. You will play an active part in shaping product strategy based on what's technically possible. You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint. You bring a passion for meeting business needs with building technically innovative solutions, and excel at shifting between the two-understanding how big-picture goals inform technical details, and vice-versa. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience delivering scalable distributed systems. Most importantly, you will have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager. Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience * 5+ years experience in engineering management * Solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in algorithms, data structures, software design, and building large, distributed systems * Proven experience in running enterprise services at pace and at scale whilst maintaining operational stability * Strong experience working with web performance, reverse proxy, caching and load balancing * Experience in representing Engineering teams strategically when cross-team design and planning is required * Experience of working with Product teams to balance priorities across operational requirements and new product development * Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability * Demonstrate a track record of managing a team including hiring, on-boarding, and professional development. You inspire your team to reach higher. You're as good at explaining "why" as you are "how" * Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages * A passion for continuous improvement when it comes to both operations and new product development * Comfortable managing teams/projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles Bonus Points * Familiarity working with Rust and Lua * Familiarity working with NGINX, DNS, database systems, Internet performance, and/or Internet security What Makes Cloudflare Special? We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're 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 : We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themse

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