Senior Product Manager, Cloudflare WAN · Cloudflare

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:42:49 GMT
Engineering

Cloudflare · Hybrid · $156,000 - $246,000 · hybrid

We are looking for an experienced, empathetic, and highly technical Senior Product Manager to join our Network Services team. Working alongside Product Managers in the same space, you'll join a growing team to own the core routing functionality that powers the heart of Cloudflare One, Cloudflare's SASE/SSE solution.

Cloudflare provides a full stack of networking-as-a-service (NaaS) products that allow customers to build and operate secure, reliable, and fast networks without purchasing traditional network hardware. Cloudflare's network underpins mission-critical infrastructure, always-on applications, small businesses, and everything in between.

Our customers rely on the performance, security, reliability, and visibility provided by our network to power their business. The Cloudflare WAN PM will be entrepreneurial-minded and thrive in a fast-paced and goal-driven environment. They will have outstanding communication and collaboration skills and will be able to work with a diverse group, get consensus, and drive the product forward.

They will be execution focused and emphasize getting things done while paying attention to important details. They will have several years of experience working with enterprise, NaaS, or security technologies. They will have a passion for building NaaS products and want to solve the problems of performance, security, and reliability of the Internet.

Role Responsibilities

Owning the product vision for your area. Ensure that it aligns with the overall product and company vision.

Representing the customer. Be the champion and voice of customers. Build meaningful, personal customer relationships. Bring the customer's voice into the creation process.

Managing the roadmap. Make tough tactical prioritization decisions while helping the company think long-term. Build trust with stakeholders by maintaining an understandable, accurate roadmap.

Authoring use cases and prioritizing requirements. Translate market observations and customer feedback into a prioritized product backlog.

Collaborating across teams. We win or lose as a team. Product managers play a critical role in creating alignment between engineering teams and other stakeholders. A collaborative attitude is essential to the job.

Measuring success. Own the measures used to define success for your product. Success measures must be defined at the inception of a product and tracked throughout its lifecycle. Make measures visible to all stakeholders and interpret them into actionable conclusions and new hypotheses.

Must-Have Skills

5-10 years working as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager shipping enterprise class software, or relevant experience

Strong technical understanding of L3-L7 networking including routing protocols, common network architectures and secure connectivity within cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Experience working alongside multiple disciplines (ex. Design, engineering, support, sales) and decision makers to ship software

Excellent customer facing skills (empathy, problem solving, clear and succinct communicator)

Ability to work with common software and networking tools like Postman or curl to interact with RESTful Web APIs, Terraform for automated provisioning of cloud networking resources

Experience with up-to-date AI tools (agents and IDEs) for vibecoding and prototyping

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience with modern SASE or SSE solutions (either building or implementing)

Experience with large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures

Active participation in industry conferences, publications, or open-source projects related to networking or security

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For Colorado, Hawaii, and Illinois based hires: Estimated annual salary of $156,000 - $215,000. For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $172,000 - $237,000. For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $179,000 - $246,000.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

Financial Benefits

Time Off

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

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: 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