Cloudflare · 9 hours ago
Red Team Manager
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expCloudflare is dedicated to building a better Internet and is seeking a Red Team Manager for their Security Threat Detection, Response and Emulation team. This role involves leading a team that emulates threats to enhance the company's security posture, while collaborating with various teams to ensure effective threat detection and response.
AnalyticsEnterprise SoftwareSecurityWeb Hosting
Responsibilities
Lead a team of high-performing global red team and efficacy engineers, providing technical guidance while fostering a culture of curiosity and ethical hacking
Develop and execute on priorities of the security organisation for the red team and efficacy testing team. Partnering with leadership and other security teams to ensure scenarios and tests are relevant and provide improvement opportunities
Manage the execution of full-chain red team operations targeting Cloudflare's global infrastructure, corporate networks, and product ecosystems
Establish a rigorous framework for testing 'Security Efficacy'—measuring exactly how well our products and security tools hold up against malicious adversaries
Foster a highly collaborative relationship with the Blue Team (Detection & Response), Eng and Product teams to ensure findings are translated into immediate defensive improvements
Translate complex technical exploits into risk-based narratives for leadership, helping prioritize engineering resources where they matter most
Act as the 'sparring partner' for SIRT. By conducting unannounced exercises, help them refine their playbooks, test their on-call rotations, and ensure their forensic tooling is effective under pressure
Partner to identify relevant threat scenarios, threat actors, tools and techniques for use in red team scenarios
Your team's findings will provide the raw data needed for Security Engineering to build more resilient architecture. Collaborate on 'paved road' initiatives, ensuring that security defaults actually stop the attacks your team develops
Provide evidence-based 'ground truth' by identifying hidden security gaps through active exploitation, allowing the GRC team to transform those technical findings into actionable risk reports and targeted policy updates
Partner with product and engineering around testing of processes, tooling and product and delivering outcomes that drive security resiliency improvements
Partner closely with Legal to ensure all testing—especially those involving social engineering or sensitive data access—is conducted within Cloudflare's ethical guidelines and global privacy regulations
Qualification
Required
8+ years in offensive security, with at least 2-3 years in a formal leadership or management capacity
A strong background in manual penetration testing, exploit development, or cloud security
Experience using the MITRE ATT&CK framework to map coverage and identify 'blind spots' in defensive telemetry
The ability to explain a complex '0-day' exploit to a non-technical stakeholder while maintaining the respect of a deep-dive engineering team
Knowledge of automated breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools, as well as custom-built frameworks for payload delivery and C2 infrastructure
Company
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Cloudflare has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (117)
2024 (115)
2023 (66)
2022 (98)
2021 (83)
2020 (37)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.08BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonFidelityUnion Square Ventures
2025-06-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2019-09-12IPO
2019-03-12Series E· $150M
Leadership Team
Matthew Prince
CEO & Co-Founder
Lee Holloway
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer
Recent News
2026-01-24
2026-01-23
2026-01-20
Company data provided by crunchbase