Principal Product Manager, Certificate Authority

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. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations: Austin or London About the Role TLS is the connective tissue of the Internet, and Cloudflare terminates a large fraction of it. Cloudflare sits in front of more than 20 percent of global Internet request traffic and terminates TLS for millions of domains. Every day, our network handles certificate operations across products like Universal SSL, SSL for SaaS, Origin CA, Cloudflare Access, and Cloudflare Tunnel. That scale has taught us how the WebPKI ecosystem works from the consuming side. As certificate lifetimes shorten, agentic activity increases, and post-quantum certificates move toward production, the number of certificates the Internet depends on will grow dramatically. Cloudflare is building a certificate authority for the whole Internet: a public, redundant, transparent CA that provides another trusted source of automated certificates and helps make the encrypted web more resilient. We intend to be ACME-first, automation-first, and transparent by design. We also intend to lead where the ecosystem is going, including post-quantum certificates and Merkle Tree Certificates, while continuing to support the classic WebPKI customers rely on today. As Principal Product Manager for Cloudflare's Certificate Authority business, you will define the product strategy, roadmap, customer experience, and commercial model for this new venture. You will work across product, engineering, security, compliance, legal, operations, sales, marketing, and the WebPKI ecosystem to turn Cloudflare's CA from a major technical commitment into a product customers trust and adopt. This is an early-days role on a growing team. It is not a role for someone who only manages backlog. The right person will be comfortable with high-consequence infrastructure, deep customer discovery, ecosystem trust, compliance scrutiny, and zero-to-one product building. The decisions you make in the first year will shape how Cloudflare participates in the certificate authority market for years to come. Responsibilities • Define the product strategy for Cloudflare's CA business across publicly trusted certificates, certificate lifecycle automation, ACME issuance, renewal workflows, revocation, Certificate Transparency, customer cont