# Engineering Manager - Queues **Company**: Cloudflare **Location**: Hybrid **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $170,000 - $260,000 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/jobs/7573864 **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ca54594e-35f ## Description About Us At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers trillions of requests per month. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. ## About the Department Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. ## About the Team The Cloudflare Queues team delivers our managed global message queue service. Queues lets developers reliably send and receive messages, buffer or batch operations, and decouple load among services on the edge. It features message batching, automatic retries, and at-least once delivery guarantees. Queues is integrated with Cloudflare Workers; a Worker can send messages to a Queue, and consume messages from a Queue. ## What you'll do We are looking for an 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 Queues 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. You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions. 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. Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager. ## Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience - Strong communications skills - especially building a shared understanding of systems among a team's members. - Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds distributed systems. - 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. - 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 TypeScript or Go. - 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 ## Bonus Points - Experience building high performance distributed systems. - Experience working with cloud platforms, especially serverless platforms. - Deep Linux/UNIX systems, kernel, or networking knowledge - Contributions to large open source projects - Experience working with async software patterns like queues, pub-sub, and event buses. - Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale Linux-based distributed system. ## Compensation Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. - For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $170,000 - $260,000 ## 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 ## Skills ### Required - Strong communications skills - Experience leading and hiring a team that builds distributed systems - Ability to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity - Experience with TypeScript or Go - Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals ### Nice to have - Experience building high performance distributed systems - Experience working with cloud platforms - Deep Linux/UNIX systems, kernel, or networking knowledge - Contributions to large open source projects - Experience working with async software patterns