# Senior Engineering Manager - Workers KV

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Go, JavaScript, Webassembly, Http, Linux, Unix, Distributed Systems, Serverless, Networking, Data Structures, Algorithms, Distributed Storage, Caching, Cloud Platforms
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Leads and develops an engineering team building and operating Workers KV, with responsibility for scalable distributed systems, APIs, product performance, hiring, and execution. Requires senior engineering leadership experience and recent TypeScript or Go expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and hire a team building scalable distributed systems for Workers KV.
- Shape product features and improve performance for a globally used platform.
- Plan teams, oversee execution, and deliver commitments predictably.
- Build developer-loved APIs that scale.
- Support onboarding, professional development, and technical leadership within the team.
- Implement tools, processes, instrumentation, and methodologies while removing blockers.
- Navigate uncertainty and ambiguity to deliver novel technical solutions.

## Requirements
- Strong communication skills, especially the ability to build shared understanding of systems.
- Experience leading and hiring engineering teams that build distributed systems.
- Experience delivering scalable distributed systems in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
- At least 4 years of recent professional experience with TypeScript or Go.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
- Deep understanding of the web, including web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.
- Track record of hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building high-performance distributed systems.
- Experience delivering and operating critical cloud infrastructure, especially serverless platforms.
- Deep Linux/UNIX, kernel, or networking knowledge.
- Contributions to large open-source projects.
- Experience with distributed storage and cache architectures.
- Experience debugging, optimizing, and identifying failure modes in large-scale Linux-based distributed systems.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Applicants who reach the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a Cloudflare office or hub.

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