Engineering Manager, Logs

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Available Locations: Austin, Denver, Washington D. C, Lisbon, Portugal, or London, UK

About the Data Team

Cloudflare’s Data Team owns the full lifecycle of analytics data: ingestion, streaming, processing, storage, and retrieval. We operate one of the largest event pipelines in the world, processing billions of events per second across globally distributed systems. As an Engineering Manager on our team, you will have the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems challenges across a variety of parts of our data stack.

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager for Logs, you will lead a team responsible for delivering high‑scale, low‑latency, and highly reliable logging systems used by every Cloudflare customer and internal service.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and coach an engineering team working on distributed systems that power Logpush, Audit Logs, and core logging infrastructure.
• Drive technical execution of roadmap commitments in partnership with Product—ensuring we deliver predictable, high‑quality outcomes.
• Own operational excellence for the logging platform, including performance, reliability, on‑call practices, observability, and incident response.
• Collaborate with partner teams (pipeline, storage, analytics) and with product feature teams to define ingestion standards, schemas, retention models, and API surfaces.
• Guide architectural decisions for large‑scale event ingestion, transformation, and delivery systems.
• Create an environment that supports autonomy, psychological safety, and high engineering standards.
• Foster strong cross‑functional relationships to ensure logging capabilities evolve with Cloudflare’s broader platform and customer needs.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 6+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineers, ideally in distributed systems or data infrastructure.
• Proven track record of delivering complex, high‑scale backend systems to production.
• Experience with event‑driven architectures and large‑scale data processing (e. g. , Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, Click
  House, Iceberg, Big
  Query).
• Strong understanding of API design and standards (Open
  API/Swagger, OAuth/JWT).
• Familiarity with large‑scale logging, observability, or telemetry systems is highly desirable.
• Ability to translate product requirements into sound engineering plans and execution strategies.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with a bias for clarity, accountability, and action.
• Experience fostering healthy teams through coaching, feedback, and thoughtful process design.
• Bonus: prior experience using Cloudflare’s platform (Workers, Access, D1/R2, etc. ) or operating multi‑region infrastructure.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location and level.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On‑demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

Export Control Disclosure

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.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodation

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. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e‑mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

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