Senior Engineering Manager / Engineering Director, Platform Connect

About Cloudflare

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. 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: Lisbon, Portugal; Bangalore, India

About the Role

Cloudflare\'s Product Platform team is looking for a dynamic and strategic leader to establish and grow our new Platform Connect team, which will be a part of the Enterprise Readiness pillar of the Platform team, in either Lisbon or Bangalore. The Platform Connect team\'s mission is to accelerate the adoption of our core platform features across various product teams by proactively integrating them into high-impact, high-usage products. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader with a strong technical background and a passion for building scalable, collaborative engineering teams.

The Platform Connect team will work closely with Product Platform teams, which are responsible for building Cloudflare products\' control plane platform features, including Organization Management, Account Management, Config Management, Identity Access Management (IAM), API, and SDK.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Management: Lead the recruitment and onboarding of the Platform Connect team. Foster a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous learning. Establish clear communication protocols and work with teams across different time zones (US/London) to ensure alignment and knowledge transfer.
• Strategy & Execution: Establish and lead a dedicated team to perform proactive integrations of platform features such as Fine Grained Access Control (RBAC), Resource Tagging, Config Sharing etc into designated products. Partner with Platform leadership and Product leadership to prioritize which products and features the team will focus on each quarter, using a data-driven approach. Develop and share best practices, reusable code snippets, and comprehensive documentation to facilitate future integrations for other product teams.
• Collaboration & Communication: Act as the primary interface between the Platform Connect team and the core Platform teams in the US/London, providing crucial feedback on the ease of integration and identifying feature gaps. Work closely with key product teams to ensure successful integrations. Collaborate with the Enterprise Readiness team and other core Platform teams on shared goals around feature adoption rates.
• Technical Enablement: Oversee the creation of training materials and workshops to enable product teams to self-serve integrations in the long run. Define the team\'s role in providing Tier 2 support for integrated features, escalating to the core platform team when necessary.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a leadership role (Senior Engineering Manager or Director) managing software development teams.
• Strong technical background in platform engineering, software development, or a related field.
• Experience with relevant technologies like Terraform, RBAC and specific product domains mentioned in the strategy.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with experience working with distributed teams across different time zones.
• A track record of driving technical initiatives and accelerating the adoption of new technologies or features within an organization.

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!

Legal & Diversity Provisions

Export controls: This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. 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.

Equal Opportunity: 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 race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

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