Senior Engineering Manager Cloudforce One

Available Locations: Austin TX

About the team

Cloudflares mission is to help build a better internet and the Threat Application Services (TAS) team lives at the core of that effort. The team builds the automated services and systems that transform Cloudflares massive network telemetry into actionable intelligence. We empower customers with products to combat advanced threats enabling them to query investigate and automatically mitigate attacks using Cloudflares unique visibility into global threat actor activity.

At a high level the Threat Application Services team is the engineering engine within Cloudforce One. We are responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of threat intelligence data from ingestion and enrichment to exposing high-fidelity indicators through the Threat Events platform and high-performance APIs. Our work ensures that threat intelligence is not just a report but a scalable real-time defensive layer across the Cloudflare stack.

About the Role

This role is for the Senior Engineering Manager of the Threat Application Services team within Cloudforce Ones Engineering organization. You will lead a team of high-performing engineers dedicated to building and scaling the Cloudforce One Threat Events platform our external Threat Intel APIs and the backend systems that integrate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) directly into products like WAF and Gateway for automated mitigation. You will also lead hiring efforts to expand our engineering capabilities as we build the next generation of agentic threat intelligence tools.

What youll do

You will be responsible for the architectural direction and operational excellence of the services owned by your team ensuring our intelligence platforms meet the latency and reliability requirements of Enterprise security operations. You will also drive the professional development of your direct reports and collaborate with product managers and security researchers to turn complex threat data into intuitive automated customer experiences.

You thrive in a fast-paced environment where software engineering meets security research. You have experience delivering scalable distributed systems managing complex data pipelines and leading teams through the transition from getting things done to building world-class reliable products.

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience with AI-assisted development and agentic AI workflows.
• Prior experience building high-performance APIs or platforms for threat intelligence security operations or large-scale data analytics.
• 8 years of Software Development experience with a focus on Go JavaScript or distributed systems.
• Led high-performing engineering teams for over 8 years responsible for architectural direction and operational excellence of large-scale distributed security platforms (e.g. Threat Intel APIs automated mitigation systems). Proven ability to manage technical debt drive professional development through strong mentorship and excel at planning and execution to deliver predictable world-class products in a high-growth environment.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and managing technical debt in a high-growth environment.
• Understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain and how to automate the ingestion and distribution of IOCs (IPs domains hashes JA3/4 fingerprints).
• Experience with edge computing (e.g. Workers) SQL-at-the-edge (D1/SQLite) and building systems that scale to handle trillions of signals.
• Excel at planning and execution to deliver predictable reliable features for security teams.
• Strong mentorship and coaching skills to support the career growth of engineers in a specialized security engineering domain.

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 including medical dental and vision insurance a 401(k) plan with company match flexible paid time off and fertility & family-forming benefits.

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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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