Cloudflare's engineering teams build and maintain the systems and products that power our global platform. A global platform which is within approximately 50 milliseconds of about 95% of the Internet connected population, serving on average, over 46 million HTTP requests per second.
About the Team
Cloudflare engineering delivers multiple products and features to production at a tremendous pace, and depends on real time load balancing and long term capacity planning to do so with high performance and efficiency. The MAPS team is responsible for highly granular and large-scale resource usage instrumentation and measurement of Cloudflare's edge platform. The team builds and runs data pipelines, as well as systems and libraries for measuring and collecting the data, and collaborates closely across the range of teams that build and run services on Cloudflare's global edge network to ensure consistent, complete, and correct attribution of all resource usage.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for highly motivated software engineers to join our MAPS team. You'll have a strong programming background with a deep understanding and experience developing and maintaining distributed systems. You'll need to be able to communicate effectively with engineers across the company to understand the behaviours of our systems and products in order to deliver tooling to meet their testing needs. You will also work closely with product managers to support our public facing synthetic testing and load testing products for enterprise customers.
Requirements
- Experience as a software engineer or similar role working on latency and efficiency sensitive server infrastructure.
- Experience working with large-scale data pipelines and processing, including use of distributed column-oriented data storage and processing such as ClickHouse, BigQuery/Dremel, etc.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals and routing basics
- Successful track record of collaborating with many teams concurrently to achieve goals that require alignment across a range of teams and orgs.
- Track record of owning problems, goals, and outcomes - not (just) specific pieces of software.
- Track record of building long-term sustainable, maintainable systems.
- Ability to dive deep into technical specifics of systems and codebases, while always keeping the big picture in mind.
- Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, C
Bonuses
- Strong understanding of Linux kernel internals, especially any of: networking, scheduling, resource isolation, virtualization
- Experience troubleshooting and resolving performance issues in large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with large scale configuration/deployment management.
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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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