About Us
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. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Locations: Austin TX, New York, NY
What you'll do:
You will lead a team of talented engineers responsible for building a resilient infrastructure to prevent payment related Fraud at Cloudflare . You will oversee the development of scalable processes and tools that handle everything related to protecting Cloudflare’s revenue. Your work will directly support billions in revenue and millions of customers while enabling new product launches and monetization motions across Cloudflare.
Your work will play a key role in rebuilding our entire billing platform, designing a next-generation financial infrastructure that ensures financial accuracy and seamless performance. Leading a team of skilled engineers, you will drive the execution of complex technical initiatives, ensuring our architecture is resilient, scalable, and future-proof.
Beyond technical execution, you will focus on growing and mentoring a high-performing engineering team. You will set clear expectations, provide thoughtful feedback, and create an environment where engineers can thrive. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, finance, data science, operations and support departments to align technical decisions with business objectives. Your ability to communicate effectively, manage priorities, and navigate a fast-paced environment will be critical in driving success.
This role is an opportunity to make a lasting impact at the intersection of financial infrastructure and distributed systems. You will help shape the future of Cloudflare, ensuring it can support the company’s rapid growth and evolving product ecosystem.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Experience building out tooling that supports fraud prevention on self-serve purchasing motions and usage based products
- Experience leading a team or multiple teams of senior and staff engineers.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, driving alignment, and clearly creating and communicating technical direction for large cross-company efforts.
- Led initiatives in partnership with data science teams to oversee the end-to-end development, training, and fine-tuning of machine learning models to meet specific business KPIs
- 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.
- Comfortable managing teams/projections with tight deadlines and short release cycles.
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Bonus Points
- Experience building enterprise grade, scaled and distributed systems
- Experience leading teams working on areas of financial infrastructure, payments, billing, and data infrastructure.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $141,000 - $194,000
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
**Project Galileo**: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
**1.1.1.1**: We released1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by ourprivacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
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