Senior Engineering Manager - Workers KV

About the Team

The Workers KV team delivers Cloudflare's global, low-latency, key-value data storage. KV lets developers store and retrieve data globally. With Workers KV, you can build dynamic and performant APIs and websites that support high read volumes with low latency.

KV is integrated with Cloudflare Workers but can also be used via our REST API. Here are a few example use cases:

• Caching API responses
• Storing user configurations and preferences

What you'll do

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our team. You will work with a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products that bring security and speed to millions of internet users each day. You will play an active part in shaping product features and improving performance to make Workers KV the best it can be. You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint. You will change the way people build applications.

You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions. You excel to understand how big picture goals inform technical details, thrive in a fast paced iterative engineering environment, and have experience delivering scalable distributed systems. Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Strong communications skills - especially building a shared understanding of systems among a team's members.
• Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds distributed systems.
• Navigate uncertainty and ambiguity - many of the things we build have never been built before anywhere and you are expected to find a way to deliver.
• Excel at planning, creating teams, and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
• 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 at explaining "why" as you are "how".
• Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages.
• At least 4 years of recent professional experience with TypeScript or Go.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object oriented or functional design.

Bonus Points

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

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.

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