Product Manager (Control Plane)

<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>About Us</strong></div> <div> <p>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. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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! </span></p> </div></div><p><strong>Available Locations: NYC, SF, Austin TX</strong></p> <p><strong>About Product Management at Cloudflare </strong></p> <p>As a<strong> Product Manager at Cloudflare</strong>, you are responsible for building products that improve the way that the Internet works. Product Managers at Cloudflare sit at the intersection of software development, design, and business strategy. We shape high-level product goals but also get our hands dirty. On an average day, you might pitch a concept to senior leadership, create a launch plan with marketing, work with designers to conduct user research, prototype a new feature, iterate on a spec, analyze usage data, or pair with an engineer on implementation. We have ultimate responsibility for understanding our client needs, influencing business strategy, feature specification, and working with engineering to develop our software.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p><strong>As the Control Plane Product Manager</strong>, you will own the mission-critical systems that govern how customer configurations are managed and deployed across Cloudflare’s global network. You will be responsible for defining the strategy and roadmap for essential change management features like configuration versioning, phased rollouts and rollbacks. Your goal is to build a system that provides customers with ultimate confidence, ensuring that changes to caching rules, security policies, and edge logic are deployed with speed, safety, and atomicity, minimizing risk to their live applications.</p> <p>This role requires a unique combination of technical depth in distributed systems and a keen focus on the user experience for platform engineers and DevOps teams. You will drive the design of APIs and dashboard experiences that allow customers to safely test changes, progressively roll them out to global or regional traffic subsets, monitor the impact, and immediately revert to a previous state if issues arise.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own your space. You will own the priorities and scope, partnering with a high performing engineering team focused on one of Cloudflare’s Application Performance products. </li> <li>Connect the pieces. Product managers are a nerve center at Cloudflare, responsible for connecting engineering, program management, marketing, revenue, and partners to make sure that our ships go out on time and with the maximum impact. </li> <li>Excel across teams. Enterprise capabilities cut across all of our product verticals, so you should be comfortable working with product managers across the company to prioritize systemic i ... (truncated, view full listing at source)