Senior Engineering Manager, AI Gateway

Cloudflare

Engineering Manager leading a high-velocity team creating AI Gateway products at Cloudflare. Hands-on role for a builder with a passion for development and teamwork.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set the technical and product direction for AI Gateway alongside engineers and PMs, then roll up your sleeves and help build it.
Build the software and the software that builds the software. Your team needs to build the context and toolchain that let agents help build, operate, monitor, and improve AI Gateway itself.
Inspire and energize a team shipping at the pace the AI ecosystem demands. Provider APIs change weekly, new models drop daily, and the gap between "good idea" and "in production" is measured in days, not quarters.
Obsess over developer experience. Every error message, SDK choice, dashboard flow, and line of docs matters. You should have strong taste about what makes developer tools feel great.
Recruit, mentor, and grow engineers. Build a small team that punches massively above its weight.
Partner closely with Workers AI, Agents, and the broader Developer Platform teams to deliver a unified inference layer that feels like one product.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A minimum of 8 years of relevant industry experience, including at least 4 years managing software engineering teams.
Proven track record leading teams that have shipped and operated complex, large-scale systems, preferably in AI infrastructure, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, edge/proxy systems, or high-scale APIs.
Significant technical depth, with the ability to guide architectural discussions, make credible technical decisions, review designs, and unblock your team.
Strong developer tools taste. You have used and built enough APIs, SDKs, dashboards, CLIs, and internal platforms to know what makes them delightful or painful.
Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, and develop senior engineers, and to build high-performing, inclusive teams that ship. You care about teams and team culture.
A hands-on approach to leadership: you consider yourself a builder, stay close to the code, know the numbers, know the customer, and know what to build next.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringAI infrastructurecloud infrastructurelarge-scale systemsAPIsSDKsdashboardsCLIsarchitectural designtechnical decision making

Soft Skills

leadershipteam buildingmentoringdeveloper experiencecommunicationcollaborationproblem solvingteam cultureinclusivityhands-on approach