Senior Product Manager

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 Location

Remote, US

Job Title

Senior Product Manager, Cloudflare WAN

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced, empathetic, and highly technical Senior Product Manager to join our Network Services team. Working alongside Product Managers in the same space, you’ll join a growing team to own the core routing functionality that powers the heart of Cloudflare One, Cloudflare’s SASE/SSE solution.

Cloudflare provides a full stack of networking-as-a-service (NaaS) products that allow customers to build and operate secure, reliable, and fast networks without purchasing traditional network hardware. Cloudflare’s network underpins mission-critical infrastructure, always-on applications, small businesses, and everything in between. Our customers rely on the performance, security, reliability, and visibility provided by our network to power their business.

The Cloudflare WAN PM will be entrepreneurial-minded and thrive in a fast-paced and goal-driven environment. They will have outstanding communication and collaboration skills and will be able to work with a diverse group, get consensus, and drive the product forward. They will be execution focused and emphasize getting things done while paying attention to important details. They will have several years of experience working with enterprise, NaaS, or security technologies. They will have a passion for building NaaS products and want to solve the problems of performance, security, and reliability of the Internet.

Role Responsibilities

Owning the product vision for your area. Ensure that it aligns with the overall product and company vision.

Representing the customer. Be the champion and voice of customers. Build meaningful, personal customer relationships. Bring the customer's voice into the creation process.

Managing the roadmap. Make tough tactical prioritization decisions while helping the company think long-term. Build trust with stakeholders by maintaining an understandable, accurate roadmap.

Authoring use cases and prioritizing requirements. Translate market observations and customer feedback into a prioritized product backlog.

Collaborating across teams. We win or lose as a team. Product managers play a critical role in creating alignment between engineering teams and other stakeholders. A collaborative attitude is essential to the job.

Measuring success. Own the measures used to define success for your product. Success measures must be defined at the inception of a product and tracked throughout its lifecycle. Make measures visible to all stakeholders and interpret them into actionable conclusions and new hypotheses.

Supporting a global team with a flexible schedule. Our customers are everywhere and we need to be everywhere. Expect occasional later than normal or earlier than normal calls to effectively engage with customers and co-workers.

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

Must-Have Skills

5-10 years working as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager shipping enterprise class software, or relevant experience

Strong technical understanding of L3-L7 networking including routing protocols, common network architectures and secure connectivity within cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Experience working alongside multiple disciplines (ex. Design, engineering, support, sales) and decision makers to ship software

Excellent customer facing skills (empathy, problem solving, clear and succinct communicator)

Ability to work with common software and networking tools like Postman or curl to interact with RESTful Web APIs, Terraform for automated provisioning of cloud networking resources

Experience With Up-to-date Ai Tools (agents And Ides) For Vibecoding And Prototyping

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience With Modern Sase Or Sse Solutions (either Building Or Implementing)

Experience With Large-scale Distributed Systems And Cloud-native Architectures

Active participation in industry conferences, publications, or open-source projects related to networking or security

Available Locations: Austin TX; Champaign IL

About The Team

Cloudflare is redefining the way networks are run at scale. Our Network Services product suite puts the connectivity, scale, and performance of Cloudflare’s global network in front of customers’ network infrastructure and private networks. We’re looking for curious, empathetic engineers who are excited to join us in changing the way networking is done!

The Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI) team works with Rust, Linux, and cloud technologies to build and manage servers and high speed networking switches at Cloudflare locations, supporting our public CNI product. We are looking for engineers who are equally as interested in building their own Linux-based operating systems as they are in building user-friendly HTTP APIs, and equally as interested in high speed networking as they are in writing good Rust code.

About The Role

As a software engineer on the CNI team, you will be a key technical contributor to the control and data planes of custom network infrastructure, operating systems, and APIs supporting our product. You will enable customers of Magic Transit, Magic WAN, and other Cloudflare products to connect with Cloudflare over private and high speed data center interconnects.

You will build software on top of one of the largest edge networks in the world, and partner with some of the best engineers and product managers to build robust, automated systems driving hundreds of gigs of customer traffic.

Desired Skills, Knowledge, And Experience

3 years of relevant Software Engineering or SRE experience

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Rust

programming

Experience Building On Top Of

Linux networking

primitives - e.g. ip, tc, network namespaces, etc

Familiarity with network engineering tools and protocols used in data center switching and routing - e.g. BGP, BFD, VXLAN, etc

Experience Designing And Integrating

RESTful APIs

and backend systems, especially asynchronous architectures and those deployed onto serverless platforms like Cloudflare Workers

Experience With Running Virtual Machines On Linux

Able to

work across teams

and level common, sustainable solutions

Focus on clarity in

written and verbal communication

Bonus Points

Experience With Linux

Switchdev

, or network OSes like

Cumulus

or

SONiC

Developing, working on, or modifying the

Linux kernel

Experience Maintaining Asynchronous And Distributed Http Backends For Infrastructure And/or Network Configuration

Compensation

Compensation May Be Adjusted Depending On Work Location.

For Colorado, Hawaii, and Illinois  based hires: Estimated annual salary of $156,000 - $215,000

For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $172,000 - $237,000

For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $179,000 - $246,000

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 registra