Interconnection Manager, Network Strategy AmericasActive$150K–$207K

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. You will own the…

What you'll do

• 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).

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

• Leverage and help shape automated, agentic workflows for LOAs, ticketing,: contract tracking, and data hygiene — partnering with the support layer to push routine execution to automation.

• Build models and scenario analyses (capacity, cost, resiliency) that let you: make faster, better-evidenced strategic calls and clearly defend them to leadership.

What they're looking for

• Formulate and execute plans to optimize traffic flow across the region,: balancing backbone, partner, transit, IX, and peer connections.
• Develop and execute strategies for the expansion, optimization, and: maintenance of Cloudflare's backbone across the Americas, planning capacity for scalability and high performance.
• Lead negotiations for high-value, complex interconnection agreements and Tier-1 partnerships.
• Advise budget planning cycles to ensure proper resource allocation for regional growth and scaling.