# Senior Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Austin, TX, Lisbon, Portugal
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Backend Systems, Frontend Systems, APIs, Financial Infrastructure, Payments, Billing, Data Infrastructure, Technical Direction, Team Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-08-28

> Leads engineering teams responsible for Cloudflare’s billing and payments infrastructure, driving scalable architecture, complex execution, hiring, and team development. The role requires cross-functional leadership and experience with distributed or financial systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead one or more teams of senior and staff engineers building and maintaining billing and payments infrastructure.
- Oversee development of scalable, highly reliable financial infrastructure supporting revenue operations, millions of customers, and new product launches.
- Drive execution of complex technical initiatives and the rebuilding of the billing platform.
- Set technical direction for large, cross-company efforts and ensure resilient, scalable, future-proof architecture.
- Hire, onboard, mentor, and develop engineers while setting clear expectations and providing effective feedback.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, finance, data science, operations, and support teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
- Plan projects, form teams, manage priorities, remove blockers, and deliver predictably under tight deadlines and short release cycles.
- Build scalable, developer-friendly APIs and implement effective tools, processes, instrumentation, and methodologies.

## Requirements
- Experience leading teams or multiple teams of senior and staff engineers.
- Experience driving cross-functional alignment and communicating technical direction for large initiatives.
- Experience building backend systems and frontend product components.
- Demonstrated success hiring, onboarding, and supporting the professional development of engineering teams.
- Strong planning, communication, prioritization, and execution skills.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience leading teams focused on financial infrastructure, payments, billing, or data infrastructure.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- Eligible to participate in the company equity plan.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter spending, fertility and family-forming benefits, mental health support, travel medical insurance, disability, life and accident insurance, retirement savings, employee stock participation, flexible paid time off, and parental, pregnancy, medical, and bereavement leave.

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