As Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team developing performance-sensitive distributed systems, focusing on enhancing APIs and scalability while ensuring security and addressing technical challenges.
Available Locations: Austin, Texas | Lisbon, Portugal | London, United Kingdom About the Team
The Workers Runtime team delivers features and improvements to our Runtime which actually executes customer code at the edge. We care deeply about increasing performance, improving JS API surface area and compiled language support through WebAssembly, and optimizing to meet the next 10x increase in scale. The Runtime is a hostile environment - System resources such as memory, cpu, I/O, etc need to be managed extremely carefully and security must be foundational in everything we do.
At the same time we want to provide the best offering for our customers coming from many different languages and ecosystems, built in idiomatic support for JavaScript, Node.js, Rust, Python and more on Workers is crucial for our success.
What you'll do
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team. You will work with a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products that bring security and speed to millions of internet users each day. You will play an active part in shaping product features and providing the best APIs to make our runtime the best it can be. You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint. You will change the way people build applications.
You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions. You excel to understand how big-picture goals inform technical details. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience in delivering scalable distributed systems. Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
The Workers Runtime team delivers features and improvements to our Runtime which actually executes customer code at the edge. We care deeply about increasing performance, improving JS API surface area and compiled language support through WebAssembly, and optimizing to meet the next 10x increase in scale. The Runtime is a hostile environment - System resources such as memory, cpu, I/O, etc need to be managed extremely carefully and security must be foundational in everything we do.
At the same time we want to provide the best offering for our customers coming from many different languages and ecosystems, built in idiomatic support for JavaScript, Node.js, Rust, Python and more on Workers is crucial for our success.
What you'll do
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team. You will work with a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building innovative products that bring security and speed to millions of internet users each day. You will play an active part in shaping product features and providing the best APIs to make our runtime the best it can be. You will make sure our company hits our ambitious goals from an engineering standpoint. You will change the way people build applications.
You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions. You excel to understand how big-picture goals inform technical details. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience in delivering scalable distributed systems. Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Experience leading a team
- Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds low level distributed systems.
- Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
- Comfortable building developer-loved APIs that scale
- Demonstrate a track record of leading a team including hiring, on-boarding, and professional development. You inspire your team to reach higher. You're as good as explaining "why" as you are "how"
- Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages
- At least 4 years of recent professional experience with C++ or Rust.
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
- Deep understanding of the web and technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript and WebAssembly
- Experience building high performance distributed systems.
- Experience working with cloud platforms, especially server-less platforms.
- Experience with the internals of JS engines such as V8, SpiderMonkey, or JavaScriptCore
- Experience with standalone WebAssembly runtimes such as Wasmtime, Wasmer, Lucet, etc
- Deep Linux/UNIX systems, kernel, or networking knowledge
- Contributions to large open source projects
- Experience working in low-latency real time environments such as game streaming, game engine architecture, high frequency trading, payment systems.
- Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale Linux-based distributed system.
Top Skills
C++
JavaScript
Rust
Webassembly
Cloudflare London, England Office
Riverside Building, 6th Floor, County Hall/The, Belvedere Rd, London, United Kingdom, SE1 7PB
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