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Engineering Manager, Cloudflare Network Interconnect

Cloudflare· Infrastructure
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager for the Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI) team, responsible for hiring, mentoring, and guiding a distributed group of Software Engineers to design, build, and operate private interconnects connecting Cloudflare to customers’ networks.

Responsibilities

  • Hiring and developing a high-performing team and supporting individual growth.
  • Applying technical experience to evaluate tradeoffs, contribute to design decisions, and help drive resolution to customer-facing issues, while creating space for engineers to lead design and implementation.
  • Taking responsibility for the team's production services by organizing on-call rotations, handling customer escalations, and overseeing incident response and follow-up.
  • Driving reliability and automation improvements across the team's systems and services.
  • Coordinating with partner and stakeholder teams on cross-functional initiatives.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience as an Engineering Manager for a team of Software and Systems Engineers.
  • Demonstrate a track record of managing a team including hiring, onboarding, and professional development.
  • Excel at planning and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
  • Technical background in IP networking: BGP, Layer 3 routing, physical and virtual interconnect technologies (cross-connects, VLANs, partner fabric integrations).
  • Experience building or operating provisioning/automation systems for network infrastructure.
  • Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging distributed systems.
  • Experience participating in and/or managing an on-call rotation for production services with direct customer impact.
  • Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your workflow.
  • Clarity in written and verbal communication.

Skills

Required:Engineering managementTechnical leadershipIP networkingAutomation and provisioningMonitoring and incident responseCommunication

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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