Engineering Manager, Logs

Available Locations: Austin, Denver, Washington D.C, Lisbon, Portugal, or London, UK 

About the Data Team

Cloudflare’s Data Team owns the full lifecycle of analytics data: ingestion, streaming, processing, storage, and retrieval. We operate one of the largest event pipelines in the world, processing billions of events per second across globally distributed systems. As an Engineering Manager on our team, you will have the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems challenges across a variety of parts of our data stack.

The Logs squad builds and operates the infrastructure and products that power Cloudflare’s Logging Platform—including Logpush, Audit Logs, ingestion contracts for internal teams, APIs, and the systems that ensure customers can reliably export and analyze their data at scale.

Please note this is a software engineering and infrastructure management role on the Data Team, not a Data Science or Data Analyst position.

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager for Logs, you will lead a team responsible for delivering high-scale, low-latency, and highly reliable logging systems used by every Cloudflare customer and internal service.

• Lead, grow, and coach an engineering team working on distributed systems that power Logpush, Audit Logs, and core logging infrastructure.
• Drive technical execution of roadmap commitments in partnership with Product—ensuring we deliver predictable, high-quality outcomes.
• Own operational excellence for the logging platform, including performance, reliability, on-call practices, observability, and incident response.
• Collaborate with partner teams (pipeline, storage, analytics) and with product feature teams to define ingestion standards, schemas, retention models, and API surfaces.
• Guide architectural decisions for large-scale event ingestion, transformation, and delivery systems.
• Create an environment that supports autonomy, psychological safety, and high engineering standards.
• Foster strong cross-functional relationships to ensure logging capabilities evolve with Cloudflare’s broader platform and customer needs.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 6+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineers, ideally in distributed systems or data infrastructure.
• Proven track record of delivering complex, high-scale backend systems to production.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing (e.g., Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, ClickHouse, Iceberg, BigQuery).
• Strong understanding of API design and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth/JWT).
• Familiarity with large-scale logging, observability, or telemetry systems is highly desirable.
• Ability to translate product requirements into sound engineering plans and execution strategies.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with a bias for clarity, accountability, and action.
• Experience fostering