About Us

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!

Available Locations: Austin

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)

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.

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