Engineering Manager - Queues

Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet, operating one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for the Queues team, responsible for delivering a managed global message queue service and ensuring the team meets ambitious engineering goals.

Responsibilities:

• 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 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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