Cloudflare - Engineering Manager

• Leading Distributed Systems – Experience leading and hiring teams that build and operate high-availability distributed databases or search engines. • Leading Distributed Systems • Navigating the AI Landscape – Comfort working in the rapidly evolving world of AI/ML, understanding how vector databases fit into the broader LLM and RAG ecosystem. • Navigating the AI Landscape • Execution & Predictability – Excel at planning, roadmap execution, and managing the lifecycle of a high-growth developer product. • Execution & Predictability • Developer-First Mindset – Experience building APIs and tools that simplify complex backend operations for frontend and full-stack developers. • Developer-First Mindset • Technical Leadership – A track record of leading teams through hiring, onboarding, and mentorship. You can explain the "why" behind architectural decisions to both engineers and stakeholders. • Technical Leadership • Systems Programming – Professional experience with Rust, Go, or TypeScript. • Systems Programming • Rust, Go, or TypeScript • Search & Indexing Expertise – Experience with vector search libraries (e.g., Faiss, HNSWlib) or traditional search engines (e.g., Elasticsearch, Lucene). • Search & Indexing Expertise • AI/ML Infrastructure – Experience building or managing platforms that serve machine learning models or manage embeddings at scale. • AI/ML Infrastructure • Database Internals – Familiarity with storage engines, query optimization, or distributed consistency models. • Database Internals • Serverless Ecosystem – Experience working with Cloudflare Workers or other serverless platforms to build stateful applications. • Serverless Ecosystem • 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: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 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 Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost. • Project Galileo • 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, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. • Athenian Project • 1.1.1.1 • Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! • This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.