**Who this is for** This role is for an experienced Engineering Manager passionate about building cutting-edge AI infrastructure. You will lead a team focused o
Work type: hybrid
Location: Hybrid
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This role is for an experienced Engineering Manager passionate about building cutting-edge AI infrastructure. You will lead a team focused on Cloudflare's Vectorize product, a global vector database enabling next-generation AI applications, and play a key role in scaling this critical component of the Developer Platform. **Key highlights** As an Engineering Manager for Vectorize, you will lead a team defining how stateful AI applications are built at the edge. You'll be responsible for scaling Vectorize to handle billions of vectors and hundreds of thousands of indexes, working closely with product and engineering teams to implement indexing strategies and enhance the developer experience for RAG workflows. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have a proven track record of leading technical teams with a focus on high-quality execution and engineer development. - Possess strong communication skills, capable of building shared understanding of complex technical topics like vector quantization and distributed state. - Have experience leading teams that build and operate high-availability distributed systems. - Are passionate about making complex AI infrastructure accessible to developers.
About Us
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.
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. 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.
Available Locations: Lisbon or London (Hybrid)
### About the Team
The Cloudflare Vectorize team builds our managed, global vector database designed to power the next generation of AI-driven applications. Vectorize enables developers to store and query high-dimensional vector embeddings, providing the "long-term memory" required for Large Language Models (LLMs) and semantic search. Integrated directly into the Cloudflare Workers and Workers AI ecosystem, Vectorize allows developers to build full-stack AI applications—from generating embeddings to performing similarity searches—entirely on Cloudflare’s global network.
Vectorize is a critical component of our Developer Platform and features:
### What you'll do
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Vectorize team. You will lead a group of engineers who are defining how stateful AI applications are built at the edge. You will play a pivotal role in scaling Vectorize to support billions of vectors and hundreds of thousands of indexes while maintaining the performance and reliability Cloudflare is known for.
You will work closely with product and engineering teams to implement cutting-edge indexing strategies and improve the developer experience for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) workflows. You bring a passion for making complex AI infrastructure accessible to every developer. You thrive in a fast-paced environment where you are building the foundations of the AI era. Most importantly, you have a track record of leading technical teams with a focus on high-quality execution and engineer career development.
### Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
[Project Galileo](https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-free-expression-online/): Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
[1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1/): We released[ 1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1/) to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our[ privacy commitment](https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns-resolver) and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
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