About Cloudflare
Empowering a secure and fast Internet for all
Key Highlights
- Public company (NYSE: NET) with a $4.4B valuation
- Over 3 million customers including Shopify & Discord
- Headquartered in San Francisco with a global presence
- $1B+ raised from investors like Franklin Templeton & Pelion Venture Partners
Cloudflare, Inc. is a leading web infrastructure and security company based in San Francisco, California. With over 3 million customers, including major brands like Shopify, Discord, and Udemy, Cloudflare offers a suite of services such as content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Interne...
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Software Engineering
Job Description
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Location: Washington DC or Austin TX
Cloudflare’s Infrastructure Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month. We ensure that all of the new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing, global customer base.
What you'll do
As a Software Engineer: Distributed Systems, you will be part of a Resiliency Organization responsible for developing and maintaining the systems that manage Cloudflare’s infrastructure at scale. We are looking for engineers to join the Maintenance Optimizer team and shape the future of infrastructure reliability. We're building a cutting-edge Maintenance Coordination System in Typescript & Go that will be pivotal in guaranteeing our service level capacity, dynamically allocating hardware resources, and supporting our critical capacity SLOs. This is a unique opportunity to work on complex, globally distributed systems which underpin core infrastructure and all Cloudflare products. We ensure the seamless operation of our global network. You will play a key role in the development of the infrastructure that powers Cloudflare’s scale.
You will collaborate with the team to understand business needs and develop technical solutions. You will thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and work closely with internal customers to understand their requirements.
Technologies we use:
- Cloudflare Workers, Workers KV, R2, and Durable Objects
- Kubernetes
- Go, Typescript, Python
- For service monitoring we use Prometheus, Grafana and Sentry
Because you’ll be solving problems of massive scale and significance, and shaping the future of the Internet, you are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone in a fast-paced environment.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
As an ideal candidate for this position, you are curious, hard-working, and passionate.
A rough list of the skills we would love to see you bring:
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related field; OR have relevant background/experience to the field.
- Programming experience in Go, or similar languages
- Experience in designing and implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems
- Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
- Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)
- Experience with continuous delivery and deployment of a k8s hosted application
- Understanding of security issues and responsibilities
- Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
- Fluent in analyses of data sets such as logs
- Strong English language oral and written communications skills
- Designing and building APIs
- Experience with the Cloudflare development stack is a plus
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- At least 4 years of hands-on software development experience on meaningfully complex systems.
- Experience building both backend systems and frontend widgets.
- Ability to contribute to planning, development, and execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
- Experience implementing tools, processes, internal instrumentation, and methodologies.
- Comfortable working on projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles.
- Strong verbal and written English language skills.
- Experience with DCIM, CMDB, IPAM, and other Data Center and Asset Lifecycle Management tools is a plus.
- Experience with data ingestion and analysis - pulling metrics from hundreds of edge data centers.
- Experience with graph theory - building a health graph on one of the world's largest physical networks.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Washington D.C. based hires: Estimated annual salary of $140,000 - 172,000.
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
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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 33 states.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
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