Engineering Manager, Cloudflare Network Interconnect

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and coach a distributed team of Software Engineers.
• Develop the team, shape its culture and technical vision.
• Work closely with Product Managers and other Engineering leaders to communicate vision, prioritize roadmap, and achieve cross-functional objectives.
• Use tools and processes to convey project status and resolve blockages.
• Understand technical implications of work across BGP, physical and virtual interconnect provisioning, and distributed control-plane services to influence scope, work across teams, and unblock projects.
• Take responsibility for the team's production services by organizing on-call rotations, handling customer escalations, and overseeing incident response and follow-up.
• Drive reliability and automation improvements for the provisioning pipeline that turns a customer order into a live, monitored BGP session.
• Coordinate with Network Operations, Sales Engineering, and Partner teams on interconnect capacity planning, partner onboarding, and cloud provider integrations.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience as an Engineering Manager for a team of Software and Systems Engineers.
• Track record of managing a team including hiring, onboarding, and professional development.
• Excel at planning and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
• Technical background in IP networking: BGP, Layer 3 routing, physical and virtual interconnect technologies (cross-connects, VLANs, partner fabric integrations).
• Experience building or operating provisioning/automation systems for network infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging distributed systems — ideally services that bridge software and physical network operations.
• Experience participating in and/or managing an on-call rotation for production services with direct customer impact.
• Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your workflow.
• Clarity in written and verbal communication.

Nice-to-Haves

• Hands-on experience with BGP configuration, route policy, and peering operations.
• Familiarity with network inventory and IPAM systems (e.g., NetBox).
• Experience with cloud provider networking (AWS Direct Connect, GCP Partner Interconnect, Azure ExpressRoute).
• Knowledge of GRE, VXLAN, or other overlay/tunnel technologies.
• Systems-level programming experience in Go, Python, Rust, C, or C++.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based service deployments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfort with customer-facing technical communication (escalation handling, partner engagements).
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., code completion, codebase analysis, log/data exploration) in a professional setting.