Engineering Manager, Logs

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 data: 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 weve equipped more than 2400 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 weve 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!

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