Engineering Manager, Browser Run

Cloudflare
Lisbon2026-08-07

About the job

This is a hands-on engineering management role. You will own Browser Run engineering end to end — the people, the roadmap, the reliability, and the story we tell customers about it. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager for AI Agents Tooling & Platform and partner closely with Product Management, Developer Relations, and platform teams across Cloudflare.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach and grow the team of systems engineers behind Browser Run — 1:1s, career development, performance conversations, and hiring.

Own the Browser Run roadmap and delivery, and give the team and the wider organisation clear visibility into what is being worked on, in what order, and what we are deliberately not doing.

Partner with Product Management to set direction: shape the roadmap, pressure-test scope, and make the trade-off calls that keep an incubation product shipping.

Own Browser Run’s operational health — browser fleet capacity, session reliability, cold-start latency, concurrency limits, on-call rotations, alert quality and incident follow-through. External developers and other Cloudflare teams depend on this service.

Keep the automation surface honest: Puppeteer and Playwright compatibility, CDP behaviour that matches what developers expect from a local Chrome, and a credible story for Chrome version upgrades.

Develop leaders. Identify and grow the engineers who will run day-to-day delivery for an area of the product, and hand that work to them.

Resolve cross-team dependencies with the Workers, Developer Platform, Security and Billing teams, and bring contentious technical decisions to closure quickly and calmly.

Own the commercial mechanics of a billed service, including the unglamorous parts: usage metering, quotas, plan limits, abuse protection and pricing input.

Represent Browser Run externally through launch blog posts, developer documentation, conference talks and direct customer conversations.

Qualifications

Minimum

2+ years managing engineering teams, on top of a solid track record as a hands-on engineer.

Experience owning a production service end to end, including on-call rotation, capacity planning and incident review.

Demonstrated experience growing engineers — promotions you supported, and ideally a team lead or first-line manager you developed.

Hands-on familiarity with browser automation — Chrome DevTools Protocol, Puppeteer or Playwright — or with the browser internals underneath them.

Strong technical grounding in distributed systems, web platform fundamentals (HTTP, JavaScript execution models, rendering) or cloud infrastructure — enough to hold a credible design review.

A track record of partnering with Product Management to set and defend a roadmap, including saying no.

Excellent written communication for internal and public-facing technical content.

Experience hiring: writing job descriptions, running interview loops, calibrating a panel and closing candidates.

Preferred

Experience running headless browser infrastructure at scale — browser fleet management, sandboxing and resource isolation.

Experience shipping AI or agent-facing platform primitives, such as MCP servers, tool-calling surfaces or agent orchestration.

Familiarity with the Cloudflare Workers development platform: Workers, Durable Objects, Workflows, R2, D1.

Experience taking an internal tool to a billed external product, including usage metering and pricing.

Experience managing a distributed team across time zones.

Open source maintainership, or a public body of technical writing.