Description

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds 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, Denver, Washington D.C, Lisbon, Portugal, or London, UK 

About the Data Team

Cloudflares Data Team owns the full lifecycle of analytics ingestion, streaming, processing, storage, and retrieval. We operate one of the largest event pipelines in the world, processing billions of events per second across globally distributed systems. As an Engineering Manager on our team, you will have the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems challenges across a variety of parts of our data stack.

The Logs squad builds and operates the infrastructure and products that power Cloudflares Logging Platformincluding Logpush, Audit Logs, ingestion contracts for internal teams, APIs, and the systems that ensure customers can reliably export and analyze their data at scale.

Please note this is a software engineering and infrastructure management role on the Data Team, not a Data Science or Data Analyst position.

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager for Logs, you will lead a team responsible for delivering high-scale, low-latency, and highly reliable logging systems used by every Cloudflare customer and internal service.

• Lead, grow, and coach an engineering team working on distributed systems that power Logpush, Audit Logs, and core logging infrastructure.
• Drive technical execution of roadmap commitments in partnership with Productensuring we deliver predictable, high-quality outcomes.
• Own operational excellence for the logging platform, including performance, reliability, on-call practices, observability, and incident response.
• Collaborate with partner teams (pipeline, storage, analytics) and with product feature teams to define ingestion standards, schemas, retention models, and API surfaces.
• Guide architectural decisions for large-scale event ingestion, transformation, and delivery systems.
• Create an environment that supports autonomy, psychological safety, and high engineering standards.
• Foster strong cross-functional relationships to ensure logging capabilities evolve with Cloudflares broader platform and customer needs.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 6+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineers, ideally in distributed systems or data infrastructure.
• Proven track record of delivering complex, high-scale backend systems to production.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing (e.g., Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, ClickHouse, Iceberg, BigQuery).
• Strong understanding of API design and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth/JWT).
• Familiarity with large-scale logging, observability, or telemetry systems is highly desirable.
• Ability to translate product requirements into sound engineering plans and execution strategies.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with a bias for clarity, accountability, and action.
• Experience fostering healthy teams through coaching, feedback, and thoughtful process design.
• Bonus: prior experience using Cloudflares platform (Workers, Access, D1/R2, etc.) or operating multi-region infrastructure.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location and level.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares 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?

Were not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. Were 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 Cloudflares 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. Heres the deal - we dont 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 youd like to be a part of? Wed 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 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.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

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