Engineering Manager, Bots & Fraud

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, TX; Washington D.C.; New York City About the Team Our team builds the products that answer "Can we trust this traffic?" Knowing who's human, who's an agent, and who's a malicious actor is core to Cloudflare's strategy, and one of the primary values we deliver to our customers. Our products address a broad and evolving range of traffic integrity challenges. Examples include managing unwanted scraping, controlling access for bots and AI agents, and identifying fraud and abuse while minimizing friction for legitimate users. Our products make probabilistic decisions in an adversarial environment, using Cloudflare's global network signals, threat intelligence, and machine learning. We turn those signals into analytics and controls that customers can understand, trust, and act on. These are challenging engineering problems at the intersection of distributed systems, data, security, and customer experience. Who You Are • You have a track record of leading engineering teams, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, and supporting professional growth. Your past teams respect you as both a technical leader and a people manager. • You have a strong foundation in software engineering, with experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and services. • You have taken projects from inception to production and overseen execution to meet commitments in a fast-paced, iterative engineering environment. • You connect business goals with technical decisions, explain both the "why" and the "how," and make thoughtful tradeoffs when requirements are uncertain. • You work effectively across Product, Engineering, and other functions to align priorities, remove blockers, and deliver shared outcomes. • You communicate clearly with engineers, customers, and senior leadership, adapting the level of technical detail to your audience. • You use AI fluently in engineering workflows and have the judgment to know where it accelerates the work and where it falls short. • You are curious about web security, bot management, fraud and abuse, and the evolving role of AI agents on the Internet. You do not need to know our exact stack, but you should be eager to go deep in the domain.