Engineering Manager, Platform Team
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Senior Engineering Director
Cloudflare
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
Terraform
About the role
- As the Director of Engineering: Enterprise Platform, you will lead the engineering efforts behind Cloudflare's dashboard, with a central focus on developing and enhancing Cloudflare’s control plane.
- Lead a team of engineering managers and engineers, collaborating closely with product management, design, and go-to-market teams.
- Drive goal-setting initiatives and take individual ownership of key objectives, including cross-functional projects.
- Ensure regular progress updates are shared with peers, executives, and other stakeholders.
- Validate team-level goals for appropriate stretch and impact, making adjustments as needed.
- Monitor delivery across teams, unblocking obstacles to maintain progress.
- Address underperforming teams by implementing necessary changes.
- Break down ambiguous problems into concrete goals with clear outcomes.
- Set a common direction and strategy across teams, creating cohesion around the mission.
- Identify opportunities to leverage existing skills, tools, and technologies to accelerate delivery and minimize waste.
- Use your engineering expertise to identify improvement opportunities, enhancing product quality and development velocity.
- Work with engineering managers and principal engineers to implement best practices.
- Ensure quantitative measures exist for teams, using data to identify issues and take corrective action.
- Deeply understand customer problems by analyzing support themes, engaging with customer-facing teams, and interacting with customers directly.
- Develop strategies to serve the needs of customers who primarily use APIs or Terraform.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with experience leading multiple managers and organizations larger than 30 people.
- Demonstrated excellence in building public-facing UX in an enterprise setting.
- Proven track record of driving organizational excellence and making tough decisions when necessary.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringpublic-facing UXAPIsTerraformengineering best practicesdata analysisgoal-settingproject managementproduct quality improvementdevelopment velocity
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingteam managementdecision-makingadaptabilitycohesion buildingcustomer engagement
