Engineering Manager - Queues

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