Senior Manager, EngineeringPosted today

Cloudflare
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The opportunity

As the Senior Engineering Manager for Cloudflare Registry and Cloudflare Registrar, you will lead the core engineering team responsible for two foundational columns of Cloudflare’s ecosystem. Together, Cloudflare Registrar (servicing over 2 million customers with a current…

What you'll do

  • Engineering Leadership: Recruit, mentor, and retain world-class systems engineers. Foster a high-agency culture focused on speed, reliability, and continuous delivery.

  • Technical & Product Strategy: Partner with Product Managers and technical leaders to define the roadmap for domain management. Align architectural choices with long-term business and reliability goals.

  • Operational Excellence: Own end-to-end operational health, including SLOs, incident response, customer escalations, and technical debt management across high-volume systems.

  • Scale & Reliability: Oversee the architecture and scaling of tools and APIs that handle millions of domain lifecycle events, maintaining strict availability and low-latency responses.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with legal, security, and registry bodies to navigate compliance requirements, ICANN policies, and domain security standards (e.g., DNSSEC).

  • Culture of Quality: Drive robust testing, automated CI/CD workflows, and deep debugging practices to guarantee zero-downtime deployments for critical infrastructure.

What they're looking for

  • Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4+: years directly managing engineering teams building scalable backend or infrastructure systems.
  • Technical Depth: Hands-on background in systems programming (Go,Java, Typescript, Ruby/Rails or similar high-performance languages) with the ability to participate in system design reviews and unblock complex technical paths.
  • Domain & Scale Expertise: Proven track record of operating high-throughput microservices, distributed data infrastructure, or public cloud platforms (GCP, Kubernetes).
  • Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex infrastructure and regulatory requirements into clear execution plans for technical and non-technical stakeholders.