# Interconnection Manager, Network Strategy Americas

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Hybrid
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $207,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.

The Interconnection Manager for the Americas is the network strategy leader for one of Cloudflare's most important and most contrasted regions , a mature, high-volume United States market alongside a fast-growing, infrastructure-constrained South America.

**Responsibilities**

- Regional Network Strategy , Americas: Own and execute the interconnection and backbone strategy for the Americas, balancing the distinct realities of the U.S. and South American markets.

- United States: Drive interconnection scale and depth with the largest U.S. ISPs and eyeball networks (e.g., Comcast, Charter, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile), expanding private interconnect, peering, and capacity to keep pace with traffic growth.

- South America: Solve the region's unique build challenges , a sparse and uneven IXP fabric, terrestrial and subsea transport economics, regulatory and market fragmentation, and heavy reliance on local partners , to establish durable, performant reach (with particular focus on Brazil, the region's largest market).

- AI-First Operating Model: Use AI-driven analytics to interpret regional traffic patterns, peering opportunities, and performance/cost trade-offs, and to inform interconnection and capacity decisions.

- Interconnection & Backbone Management: Formulate and execute plans to optimize traffic flow across the region, balancing backbone, partner, transit, IX, and peer connections.

- Partnership with the Regional Network Acquisition Manager: Set the strategy and priorities the Network Acquisition Manager executes against; review and approve sourcing recommendations for new and existing transport services.

- Relationship Management: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with ISPs, IXPs, carriers, and partners across the Americas.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Data Center Strategy, Network Engineering, Capacity Planning, and Infrastructure Operations to align on network strategy and implementation.

- Industry Engagement: Represent Cloudflare in regional and global industry forums and conferences, contributing to best practices and standards.

**Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:**

- 5+ years of experience in network infrastructure, ideally within a Telco, ISP, CDN, or cloud environment.

- Strong understanding of networking protocols and technologies, including BGP, DWDM, and IP networking.

- Proven experience negotiating and managing interconnection agreements.

- Working knowledge of the Americas connectivity landscape , the U.S. wholesale/peering market and the transport, IXP, and partner dynamics of South America (including subsea and terrestrial considerations).

- Fluency with AI tools in daily work, and a genuine appetite to use AI/agentic tooling to scale decision-making and eliminate manual toil.

**Compensation**

- Estimated annual salary of $150,000 - $207,000 (Bay Area based hires)

- Estimated annual salary of $143,000 - $197,000 (New York based hires)

- Estimated annual salary of $143,000 - $197,000 (Washington D.C. based hires)

**Benefits**

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- network infrastructure
- BGP
- DWDM
- IP networking
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- hands-on experience building or scaling network presence in emerging or infrastructure-constrained markets

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