Engineering Manager - Security Platform

About the role

The Security Platform team is an infrastructure/developer tools group tasked with building and operating powerful, resilient, and secure infrastructure and systems that enable other engineering teams to deliver products to our customers efficiently and securely. This is not a policy, audit, or compliance team, but rather an infrastructure engineering/software development one.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team in building and operating secure and resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management, running across our network that spans more than 310 cities in over 120 countries.
• Run and support the systems we build, both in an operational sense and by helping other internal developers use them.
• Organize and plan the team's long-term roadmap and day-to-day work.
• Review and sign off on technical designs, project plans, and code; providing guidance to ensure quality, resilience, and security.
• Participate in design and implementation, personally leading projects as needed.
• Support the growth and career development of your team, delegating tasks as appropriate.
• People management responsibilities (performance management, compensation planning, etc) may be entirely in your hands or supported by senior management, depending on your level and preferences.
• This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

Requirements

Team leadership/management; level and years of experience are flexible.
Excellent verbal and written communication.
Software development and distributed systems design expertise.
Strong security background with a focus on implementation, not policy/compliance.
Bonus points: Track record of contributing to open source security or distributed systems projects.
Cryptographic background and ability to work with cryptosystems at the primitives level.
Experience with HSMs, TPMs, or other platform TEEs (e.g. AMD SEV, Intel SGX, Apple Secure Enclave).
Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao, or similar.
Linux/UNIX system administration proficiency.
Familiarity with Go and/or Python + Salt specifically.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, And Experience

Team leadership/management; level and years of experience are flexible.
Excellent verbal and written communication.
Software development and distributed systems design expertise.
Strong security background with a focus on implementation, not policy/compliance.
Bonus points: Track record of contributing to open source security or distributed systems projects.
Cryptographic background and ability to work with cryptosystems at the primitives level.
Experience with HSMs, TPMs, or other platform TEEs (e.g. AMD SEV, Intel SGX, Apple Secure Enclave).
Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao, or similar.
Linux/UNIX system administration proficiency.
Familiarity with Go and/or Python + Salt specifically.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, flexible paid time off, and fertility & family-forming benefits.

Pay

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For New York City, Washington D.C., and Seattle based hires: Estimated annual salary of 190,000 - 237,000 USD.
For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of 170,000 - 212,000 USD.
For Toronto, Canada based hires: Estimated annual salary of 150,000 : 187,000 CAD.

Schedule

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.