Senior Engineering Manager (Workers KV)

• The Workers KV team delivers Cloudflare’s global, low-latency, key-value data storage. KV lets developers store and retrieve data globally. With Workers KV, you can build dynamic and performant APIs and websites that support high read volumes with low latency
• We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our team
• You will work with a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products that bring security and speed to millions of internet users each day
• You will play an active part in shaping product features and improving performance to make Workers KV the best it can be
• You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint
• You will change the way people build applications

Benefits

• Competitive pay: We offer a competitive total rewards package, where every employee is an owner of our stock.
• Take-what-you-need vacation: We encourage employees to find a comfortable work-life balance by taking as many days off as they need while still being able to perform their jobs satisfactorily. (We really mean it!)
• Paid maternity & paternity leave: Our global parental leave policy allows up to sixteen paid weeks of bonding leave time for all qualifying new parents.
• Employee benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pension plans in accordance with the market practice in our locations.
• Commuter program: We are flexible about where we work and value connecting at the office. Our commuter benefits program is in place to support team members’ commute to work via public transportation without the extra cost burden.
• Wellbeing: Global offerings that provide mental health, childcare and family forming support to our employees across our offices.- You excel to understand how big-picture goals inform technical details
• You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience in delivering scalable distributed systems
• You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions
• Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager
• Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds distributed systems
• Deep understanding of the web and technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript and WebAssembly
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design
• Strong communications skills - especially building a shared understanding of systems among a team’s members
• Excel at planning, creating teams, and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
• Demonstrate a track record of leading a team including hiring, on-boarding, and professional development. You inspire your team to reach higher. You’re as good as explaining “why” as you are “how”
• Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages
• Comfortable building developer-loved APIs that scale
• At least 4 years of recent professional experience with TypeScript or Go
• Navigate uncertainty and ambiguity - many of the things we build have never been built before anywhere and you are expected to find a way to deliver
• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale Linux-based distributed system
• Experience working with distributed storage and cache architectures
• Deep Linux/UNIX systems, kernel, or networking knowledge
• Contributions to large open source projects
• Experience delivering and operating critical infrastructure for cloud platforms, especially serverless platforms
• Experience building high performance distributed systems