Senior Engineering Director
Cloudflare
Terraform
Engineering Manager, Platform Team
SecurityScorecard
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $175,000 - $225,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptMicroservicesNode.jsReact
About the role
- Lead, grow, and coach a highly competent engineering team
- Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous learning
- Develop individualized growth plans; care deeply about career development
- Lead by example and be a role model of our values
- Own the quality, architecture, and pace of delivery for the team
- Lead the design and development of scalable microservices and platform systems using technologies such as AWS, Node.js, and React
- Drive adoption of modern infrastructure: CI/CD, containerization, observability, and cloud services
- Lead architectural and code reviews across the platform organization
- Translate business and R&D initiatives into actionable technical requirements
- Build systems that scale: distributed, real-time data pipelines for low-latency decisioning
- Focus on automation & tooling to reduce toil and improve engineering efficiency
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and stakeholders across teams to align priorities
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on backend systems and platform services
- 5+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams
- Expertise in a modern programming language such as Node.js
- Strong systems design background with deep experience in performance, scalability, and reliability
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), distributed systems, observability, and DevOps practices
- Strong fundamentals in computer science (algorithms, data structures, operating systems, networking)
- Proven success in mentoring engineers & delivering complex projects at scale
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to balance tradeoffs
- Strong communication skills — both verbal and written — and the ability to influence across disciplines.
Benefits
- Specific to each country, we offer a competitive salary
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
- Tuition reimbursements
- Much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringbackend systemsplatform servicesNode.jsmicroservicescloud infrastructuredistributed systemsDevOps practicesperformancescalability
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingaccountabilitycontinuous learningmentoringproblem-solvingcommunicationinfluencecollaborationorganizational skills
