Senior Engineering Manager - Workers KV

Available Locations: Lisbon | London | Hybrid

About the Department

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.

About the Team

The Workers KV team delivers Cloudflare's global, low-latency, key-value data storage. KV lets developers store and retrieve data globally. With Workers KV, you can build dynamic and performant APIs and websites that support high read volumes with low latency.

KV is integrated with Cloudflare Workers but can also be used via our REST API. Here are a few example use-cases:

• Caching API responses
• Storing user configurations and preferences
• Storing user authentication details

The team is geographically distributed across Western Europe.

What you'll do

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our team. You will work with a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products that bring security and speed to millions of internet users each day. You will play an active part in shaping product features and improving performance to make Workers KV the best it can be. You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint. You will change the way people build applications.

You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions. You excel to understand how big-picture goals inform technical details. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience in delivering scalable distributed systems. Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Strong communications skills - especially building a shared understanding of systems among a team's members.
• Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds distributed systems.
• Navigate uncertainty and ambiguity - many of the things we build have never been built before anywhere and you are expected to find a way to deliver.
• Excel at planning, creating teams, and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
• Comfortable building developer-loved APIs that scale
• Demonstrate a track record of leading a team including hiring, on-boarding, and professional development. You inspire your team to reach higher. You’re as good as explaining “why” as you are “how”.
• Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages
• At least 4 years of recent professional experience with TypeScript or Go.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
• Deep understanding of the web and technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript and WebAssembly

Bonus Points

• Experience building high performance distributed systems
• Experience delivering and operating critical infrastructure for cloud platforms, especially serverless platforms
• Deep Linux/UNIX systems, kernel, or networking knowledge
• Contributions to large open source projects
• Experience working with distributed storage and cache architectures
• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale Linux-based distributed system

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave