Hybrid Engineering Manager – Workers Runtime, Edge Team

at Cloudflare

• Job title: Engineering Manager – Workers Runtime, Edge Team
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, JavaScript, Linux, Rust
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading the Workers Runtime team at Cloudflare, enhancing performance-sensitive services with C++ and Rust. Overseeing system architecture, team growth, and reliability for millions of requests per second.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of senior systems engineers working in C++ and Rust on one of the most performance-critical and security-sensitive services at Cloudflare.
• Drive major infrastructure initiatives — migrating legacy systems, redesigning core abstractions, and laying the groundwork for next-generation runtime architecture that will define the platform for years to come.
• Own reliability and release safety for a service handling tens of millions of requests per second. You will improve release processes, invest in health monitoring and automated rollback, and ensure the team can ship changes confidently at scale.
• Make hard prioritisation calls between new feature work that unblocks customers and the ongoing investment in foundations, security, and developer velocity that the team needs to stay healthy long-term.
• Partner closely with adjacent teams across the Developer Platform to ensure the runtime supports the broader product roadmap — including compute, storage, networking, and observability teams.
• Grow and develop the team Hire strong systems engineers, set clear expectations, provide technical mentorship, and create an environment where people do their best work.

Requirements

• Experience leading a team
• Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds low level distributed systems.
• Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
• Comfortable building developer-loved APIs that scale
• 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
• At least 4 years of recent professional experience with C++ or Rust.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
• Deep understanding of the web and technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript and WebAssembly
• Strong understanding of Linux systems programming, process models, and networking.

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
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave