Job Description

About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Senior Manager, Performance Engineering
Available Locations: Hybrid - New York City and London
Role Summary
We're looking for a Senior Manager, Engineering to lead our Performance Engineering (PERF) team. The PERF team is crucial for ensuring Cloudflare's production systems are fast, responsive, and scalable. This includes system software, services, products, and solutions running on our infrastructure.
Our core mission is to empower everyone at Cloudflare to prioritize performance. The PERF team achieves this by:

• Developing and maintaining tools to pinpoint performance issues in products and services.
• Proactively driving cross-functional initiatives for system software tuning and architectural performance improvements.
• Assisting and providing training in debugging and analysis of performance.

Ultimately, the team's primary goal is to deliver a best-in-class experience on Cloudflare's infrastructure for both internal products and external customers, directly supporting our business scaling to $5B.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Manager, you will:

• Lead and grow a high-performing team by hiring, mentoring, and coaching highly capable Software Engineers.
• Drive significant performance improvements at both the system and datacenter levels.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering stakeholders to prioritize, plan, and execute projects effectively.
• Ensure clear communication of status and impact through various tools, discussions, and meetings.
• Leverage your technical expertise to scope projects, facilitate cross-team collaboration, and unblock initiatives.

What You Bring
We're looking for someone with:

• 4+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager leading Software Engineers.
• Deep understanding of performance measurement and evaluation, including compute platform internals like CPU, memory, Operating System (Linux), and networking and their impact on performance.
• Proven ability to plan, build, and oversee execution to meet commitments and deliver predictably.
• A strong track record of managing high-performing teams, including successful hiring, onboarding, and professional development. You inspire your team to achieve more and are adept at explaining both the "why" and the "how."
• Experience implementing tools, processes, and internal instrumentation to resolve blockages.
• Comfort managing distributed teams and projects across multiple locations and time zones, often with tight deadlines and short release cycles.
• Exceptional clarity in both written and verbal communication.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Nice to have

• Proficiency in systems programming languages such as C (kernel), Go, Rust, and scripting languages like Bash and Python, as well as experience with Salt/SaltStack.

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's 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?
We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're 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.
: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 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 Cloudflare's enterprise customers--at no cost.
: 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, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
: We released 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. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
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