About the role
As an engineer on one of our Production Engineering teams, you'll be building the tools to help engineers deploy and operate the services that make Cloudflare work. Our mission is to provide a reliable, yet flexible, platform to help product teams release new software efficiently and safely. You'll be building the private cloud that Cloudflare developers leverage to build Cloudflare itself. Core platforms we operate at Cloudflare include:
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Developer tools, CI, and CD systems
- Vault, Consul
- Terraform
- Temporal Workflows
- Cloudflare Developer Platform
What You'll Do
- Build software that automates the operation of large, highly-available distributed systems.
- Ensure platform security, and guide security best practices
- Document your work and guide fellow developers towards optimal solutions
- Contribute back to the open source community
- Leave code better than we found it
What You'll Need
- Recent career experience with Go or Python and at least 3 years experience in the role of full-time software engineer (any language). Rust is an added bonus.
- Experience with deploying and managing services using Docker on Linux
- A firm grasp of IP networking, load balancing and DNS
- Excellent debugging skills in a distributed systems environment
- Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing (we use git)
- The ability to break down complex problems and drive towards a solution
- Be passionate about improving User Experience
Bonus Points
- Experience with Deployment, StatefulSets, Persistent Volumes Claims, Ingresses, CRDs on Kubernetes
- Operational experience deploying and managing large systems on bare metal
- Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a large-scale company
- You have practical knowledge of web and systems performance, and extensively used tracing tools like ebpf and strace.
- Alerting and monitoring (Prometheus/Alert Manager), Configuration Management (salt)
Top Skills
What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We are committed to developing a global team that is distributed with a flexible working approach. Doing this equitably and inclusively is essential to our success. Visit our careers site for more on 'How & Where We Work.'
