Engineering Manager - Queues

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s 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 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!

Available Locations: Austin | Atlanta | NYC

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

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 Cloudflare Queues team delivers our managed global message queue service. Queues lets developers reliably send and receive messages, buffer or batch operations, and decouple load among services on the edge. It features message batching, automatic retries, and at-least once delivery guarantees.

Queues is integrated with Cloudflare Workers; a Worker can send messages to a Queue, and consume messages from a Queue. Here are a few example use-cases:

Offload work from a request

– If a Worker needs to do processing, but doesn't need to block the request. (more reliable than "waitUntil()")

Guaranteed delivery

–  If a customer

cannot

lose data, Queues will guarantee that each message is stored on-disk and processed at-least once.

Send data between Workers

– If a customer wants to send messages among Workers, Queues makes it super easy. (more reliable than "Service" bindings)

Batch events, logs, analytics, etc.

– If a service has too much or bursty load, developers can send data to a Queue, then process that data in batches.

The Team Is Geographically Distributed Across North America.

What You'll Do

We are looking for an 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 Queues 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 Working With Cloud Platforms, Especially Serverless Platforms.

Deep Linux/UNIX systems, kernel, or networking knowledge

Contributions to large open source projects

Experience Working With Async Software Patterns Like Queues, Pub-sub, And Event Buses.

Experience Debugging, Optimizing And Identifying Failure Modes In a Large-scale Linux-based Distributed System.

Compensation

Compensation May Be Adjusted Depending On Work Location.

For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $170,000 - $260,000

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

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.

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.

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. Here’s the deal - we don’t 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 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.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual

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