Hybrid Senior Engineering Director

at Cloudflare

• Job title: Senior Engineering Director
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Director of Engineering leading engineering efforts behind Cloudflare's dashboard and enhancing the control plane. Overseeing teams and collaborative initiatives for significant growth.

Responsibilities

• As the Director of Engineering: Enterprise Platform, you will lead the engineering efforts behind Cloudflare's dashboard, with a central focus on developing and enhancing Cloudflare’s control plane.
• Lead a team of engineering managers and engineers, collaborating closely with product management, design, and go-to-market teams.
• Drive goal-setting initiatives and take individual ownership of key objectives, including cross-functional projects.
• Ensure regular progress updates are shared with peers, executives, and other stakeholders.
• Validate team-level goals for appropriate stretch and impact, making adjustments as needed.
• Monitor delivery across teams, unblocking obstacles to maintain progress.
• Address underperforming teams by implementing necessary changes.
• Break down ambiguous problems into concrete goals with clear outcomes.
• Set a common direction and strategy across teams, creating cohesion around the mission.
• Identify opportunities to leverage existing skills, tools, and technologies to accelerate delivery and minimize waste.
• Use your engineering expertise to identify improvement opportunities, enhancing product quality and development velocity.
• Work with engineering managers and principal engineers to implement best practices.
• Ensure quantitative measures exist for teams, using data to identify issues and take corrective action.
• Deeply understand customer problems by analyzing support themes, engaging with customer-facing teams, and interacting with customers directly.
• Develop strategies to serve the needs of customers who primarily use APIs or Terraform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with experience leading multiple managers and organizations larger than 30 people.
• Demonstrated excellence in building public-facing UX in an enterprise setting.
• Proven track record of driving organizational excellence and making tough decisions when necessary.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities