Engineering Manager, Media Platform

About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
About the Department
Media Platform is part of Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare's edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization. Media Platform is focused on images, video, realtime communication and Cloudflare TV.
What you'll do
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team. You will lead a small but high-performing team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products for the next generation of media products, with a particular focus on images: ingestion, storage, transformation and delivery at global web scale. You will be shipping products that reduce developer pain and help developers bring their ideas to market faster. You will play an active part in shaping the product and team. You will make sure our company hits our ambitious engineering goals. You will change the way people build applications.
You bring a passion for meeting business needs with building technically innovative solutions, and excel at shifting between the two-understanding how big-picture goals inform technical details, and vice-versa. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience delivering scalable distributed systems. Most importantly, you have proven ability to lead and inspire a team.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Technical leadership experience: either managing a team or working as a technical lead. You inspire your team to reach higher. You're as good as explaining "why" as you are "how".
• Solid foundation in computer science and software engineering with strong competencies in software design, and building distributed systems.
• Excel at planning, team building and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
• Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages.
• Comfortable leading teams/projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles.

Bonus Points

• Experience with media handling at scale, especially images.
• Experience working in low-latency real time environments such as game streaming, game engine architecture, high frequency trading, payment systems.
• Expertise in data analysis and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Managing contributions to open-source projects.

Available Locations: Lisbon or London