Company Overview
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business. Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
About the job
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!
Available Locations: Austin, San Francisco, NYC, London.
About The Role
You’ll be responsible for building new products that enable our customers to query, analyze, and search over the data they store in our Developer Platform.
This role will be focused on shipping and rapidly iterating on next-generation distributed query engines, enabling customers to make the most of the structured and/or table data they already store in R2, and providing a platform for other product teams (such as Pipelines) to tightly integrate against.
This includes growing Vectorize (our distributed vector search database), working closely with R2 (our object storage) team, and ensuring what we build ties deeply into our compute platform: Workers.
What You’ll Do
Drive the strategy, roadmap & ship products that expand Cloudflare’s data platform and how customers operate on the data they store on us.
Lead projects from ideation through launch, and continuing through ongoing maintenance and support
Develop and nurture relationships with engineering and coordinate closely to ensure successful delivery of product features
Talk to developers (probably the most important)! You’ll need to be crafty and develop a playbook to find the right users to talk to. This might include diving into our BI tools to find specific cohorts that are worth talking to, engaging on our developer discord, or heading straight to Twitter or Hacker News to engage and build relationships with the community.
Partner with other departments such as Product Marketing, Marketing, Community & Developer Relations, Sales, and Customer Support to drive adoption with and gather feedback from customers and prospects
Ruthlessly prioritize across a complex environment of diverse customers, stakeholders and objectives
Represent the company externally as needed, including meetings with customers and prospects and analysis
Delve into market research to drive new investment opportunities in the database and data space.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience
You have outstanding communication and collaboration skills and are able to work with a diverse group, get alignment, and drive the product forward. You are execution focused and emphasize getting things done while paying attention to important details.
Proven track record of shipping developer-facing products from ideation to launch
Demonstrated experience with (any of) OLAP or HTAP databases, vector search and querying, and/or familiarity with modern structured table & data formats such as Iceberg and Delta Lake. You should have a burning desire to become a domain expert in each of these areas as quickly as possible.
A focus on the developer: you’ll be working directly, and often be a part of the customer’s team in helping them get their initial implementation off the ground
BS/MS in a technology field
Professional product management experience (3-4 years), previous founder experience or demonstrated experience on an engineering team shipping user-facing products.
Strong technical abilities. You should be intimately familiar with modern software development practices used to build and deploy applications. You are capable of wading into the details & understanding engineering decisions’ impact on the product, but can also step back and take a 30k foot view.
A desire to sweat the details and ship great end-to-end developer experiences. APIs, UIs, docs: all of these are part of the product.
Experience using developer tools: you should have a favorite text editor, be familiar with composing CLI tools, and be the first user of the products you’re shipping.
Scripting/programming experience (JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Go, etc.) and/or experience with SQL dialects.
A love for talking to developers at organizations both large and small on a daily basis so that you can build and ship products that solve real problems
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $140,000 – $172,000
For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $158,000 – $193,000
For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $166,000 – $224,000
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
Medical/Rx Insurance
Dental 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
Financial Benefits
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
Life & Accident Insurance
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Stock Participation Plan
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