Lead a team to build resilient payment infrastructure, focusing on fraud prevention and aligning technical decisions with business objectives. Manage cross-functional collaboration and drive team development.
Available Locations: Austin TX, New York, NY
What you'll do:
You will lead a team of talented engineers responsible for building a resilient infrastructure to prevent payment related Fraud at Cloudflare . You will oversee the development of scalable processes and tools that handle everything related to protecting Cloudflare's revenue. Your work will directly support billions in revenue and millions of customers while enabling new product launches and monetization motions across Cloudflare.
Your work will play a key role in rebuilding our entire billing platform, designing a next-generation financial infrastructure that ensures financial accuracy and seamless performance. Leading a team of skilled engineers, you will drive the execution of complex technical initiatives, ensuring our architecture is resilient, scalable, and future-proof.
Beyond technical execution, you will focus on growing and mentoring a high-performing engineering team. You will set clear expectations, provide thoughtful feedback, and create an environment where engineers can thrive. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, finance, data science, operations and support departments to align technical decisions with business objectives. Your ability to communicate effectively, manage priorities, and navigate a fast-paced environment will be critical in driving success.
This role is an opportunity to make a lasting impact at the intersection of financial infrastructure and distributed systems. You will help shape the future of Cloudflare, ensuring it can support the company's rapid growth and evolving product ecosystem.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
Bonus Points
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
What you'll do:
You will lead a team of talented engineers responsible for building a resilient infrastructure to prevent payment related Fraud at Cloudflare . You will oversee the development of scalable processes and tools that handle everything related to protecting Cloudflare's revenue. Your work will directly support billions in revenue and millions of customers while enabling new product launches and monetization motions across Cloudflare.
Your work will play a key role in rebuilding our entire billing platform, designing a next-generation financial infrastructure that ensures financial accuracy and seamless performance. Leading a team of skilled engineers, you will drive the execution of complex technical initiatives, ensuring our architecture is resilient, scalable, and future-proof.
Beyond technical execution, you will focus on growing and mentoring a high-performing engineering team. You will set clear expectations, provide thoughtful feedback, and create an environment where engineers can thrive. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, finance, data science, operations and support departments to align technical decisions with business objectives. Your ability to communicate effectively, manage priorities, and navigate a fast-paced environment will be critical in driving success.
This role is an opportunity to make a lasting impact at the intersection of financial infrastructure and distributed systems. You will help shape the future of Cloudflare, ensuring it can support the company's rapid growth and evolving product ecosystem.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Experience building out tooling that supports fraud prevention on self-serve purchasing motions and usage based products
- Experience leading a team or multiple teams of senior and staff engineers.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, driving alignment, and clearly creating and communicating technical direction for large cross-company efforts.
- Led initiatives in partnership with data science teams to oversee the end-to-end development, training, and fine-tuning of machine learning models to meet specific business KPIs
- 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.
- Comfortable managing teams/projections with tight deadlines and short release cycles.
Bonus Points
- Experience building enterprise grade, scaled and distributed systems
- Experience leading teams working on areas of financial infrastructure, payments, billing, and data infrastructure.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $141,000 - $194,000
Top Skills
APIs
Cloud Services
Financial Infrastructure
Machine Learning
Payment Systems
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