engineering
Posted YesterdaySenior Engineering Manager, AI Gateway
at LazyApply
On-site
Responsibilities
- Build the software and the software that builds the software. Your team needs to build the context and toolchain that let agents help build, operate, monitor, and improve AI Gateway itself.
- Recruit, mentor, and grow engineers. Build a small team that punches massively above its weight.
- A track record of writing publicly about developer tools or systems you've built.
Requirements
- As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
- 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.
- AI inference is becoming core infrastructure.
- AI Gateway is Cloudflare's bet that this layer should exist at the network edge: close to users, close to compute, and simple enough that a developer can adopt it with one API change.
- We dogfood AI Gateway, Workers AI, and the broader Cloudflare agent stack relentlessly, and we expect you to as well. Responsibilities
- As the Engineering Manager for AI Gateway, you will lead a small, high-velocity team building that layer.
- You will be in the code, in the design docs, in customer conversations, and in the trenches with your team.
- We dogfood AI Gateway, Workers AI, and the broader Cloudflare agent stack relentlessly, and we expect you to as well.
- Set the technical and product direction for AI Gateway alongside engineers and PMs, then roll up your sleeves and help build it.
- Inspire and energize a team shipping at the pace the AI ecosystem demands.
- Obsess over developer experience. Every error message, SDK choice, dashboard flow, and line of docs matters. You should have strong taste about what makes developer tools feel great.
- Partner closely with Workers AI, Agents, and the broader Developer Platform teams to deliver a unified inference layer that feels like one product Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
- Proven track record leading teams that have shipped and operated complex, large-scale systems, preferably in AI infrastructure, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, edge/proxy systems, or high-scale APIs.
- Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, and develop senior engineers, and to build high-performing, inclusive teams that ship. You care about teams and team culture.
- Experience building AI/ML infrastructure, inference platforms, model gateways, or LLM-powered applications. •
- experience with proxy, edge, or gateway systems.
- Familiarity with the current AI ecosystem: providers, model capabilities, agent frameworks, and where the rough edges are.
- You've built something with AI Gateway, Workers AI, or a competing product, and have opinions about what's missing.
- Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
- Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
Experience
- A minimum of 8 years of relevant industry experience, including at least 4 years managing software engineering teams.
Benefits
- A hands-on approach to leadership: you consider yourself a builder, stay close to the code, know the numbers, know the customer, and know what to build next. Bonus Points •
- All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.
Contact
- Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Additional details
- 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.
- 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.
- Available Locations | Austin, US About the Role
- Every serious application will need access to many models, across many providers, with reliability, observability, security, cost control, and routing built in from the start.
- We don't just build the product; we build the environment that builds the product: the agents, harnesses, skills, tools, and context that let a small team ship like a much larger one.
- We're looking for a generative builder who can move from half-formed idea to working prototype quickly, and bring a team along with that energy.