Lead and manage the Zero Trust Client Platform team, overseeing multi-platform client applications, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high-quality networking code.
Available Locations: Austin
What you'll do
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Zero Trust Client Platform team. You will oversee the core platform for our desktop and mobile clients (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android), which protects corporate devices by securely routing traffic to Cloudflare's global network for advanced filtering and policy enforcement.
You will play a key role in shaping the team's engineering strategy, working with other engineering teams, product management, and external stakeholders to implement customer-impacting features and meet the team's ambitious goals of quality, reliability, and high-availability. You will work closely with your team to maintain the code quality and to build solid, testable, and well-documented code.
As a manager in our team, you will be expected to lead, inspire, and foster a culture of diversity. You will communicate clearly and with empathy, and work towards building a cohesive and collaborative team. You will be expected to interact with our customers and internal stakeholders, to identify gaps and areas of improvements in our product and processes alike, and to work with your own stakeholders to transform those into innovative, actionable, and achievable solutions.
The team predominantly uses Rust to implement high-performance networking code that runs on multiple platforms. You will be most successful in this role if you have a strong understanding of networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, QUIC, H/3, proxying, etc.) and experience building and maintaining SDKs on Windows, macOS and Linux platforms.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience
A knack for finding inspiring and innovative solutions to problems and blocker
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
Financial Benefits
Time Off
What you'll do
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Zero Trust Client Platform team. You will oversee the core platform for our desktop and mobile clients (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android), which protects corporate devices by securely routing traffic to Cloudflare's global network for advanced filtering and policy enforcement.
You will play a key role in shaping the team's engineering strategy, working with other engineering teams, product management, and external stakeholders to implement customer-impacting features and meet the team's ambitious goals of quality, reliability, and high-availability. You will work closely with your team to maintain the code quality and to build solid, testable, and well-documented code.
As a manager in our team, you will be expected to lead, inspire, and foster a culture of diversity. You will communicate clearly and with empathy, and work towards building a cohesive and collaborative team. You will be expected to interact with our customers and internal stakeholders, to identify gaps and areas of improvements in our product and processes alike, and to work with your own stakeholders to transform those into innovative, actionable, and achievable solutions.
The team predominantly uses Rust to implement high-performance networking code that runs on multiple platforms. You will be most successful in this role if you have a strong understanding of networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, QUIC, H/3, proxying, etc.) and experience building and maintaining SDKs on Windows, macOS and Linux platforms.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience
- 5+ years of experience leading a team of geographically distributed engineers, including hiring, coaching, and professional development
- Experience shipping multi-platform client applications and SDKs, desktop and mobile alike
- Good understanding of VPN, SASE technologies and networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, QUIC, H/3, proxying, etc.)
- Excellent technical leadership skills, driving for very high-quality and low-complexity code with thorough documentation
- A passion for navigating the challenges of a fast-paced, high-growth engineering culture
- Empathetic, proactive, and constructive verbal and written communication skills
- A good understanding of how the big-picture goals inform technical details
- A drive for implementing tools, documentations, processes, instrumentation, and metrics to enhance the team's velocity and performance
A knack for finding inspiring and innovative solutions to problems and blocker
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
Top Skills
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Rust
Sase
Vpn
Windows
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