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.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
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 the core services that power Cloudflare’s global operations. We are looking for engineers to join the Infrastructure Intelligence team and shape the transition toward model-driven network orchestration.
The team is building a cutting-edge 'Maintenance Coordination System', powered by an infrastructure dependency graph of one of the world's largest physical networks. This is a foundational step towards designing intelligent, autonomous systems that will transform the orchestration of Cloudflare’s network. It forms the basis of many future projects to build the core data structures and services required to ensure our network optimization, network forecasting, and capacity planning are the state of the art.
By creating the robust primitives for global coordination today, you will be enabling the next generation of data-driven infrastructure at Cloudflare. This is a unique opportunity to work on complex, globally distributed systems which underpin all Cloudflare products.
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 besolving problems of massive scale and significance, andshaping 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 with graph theory and building services for graph generation, storage and retrieval.
- An understanding of the systems architecture required to scale machine learning model-driven decision engines in a production environment
- 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.
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 released1.1.1.1 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 ourprivacy 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!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
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.
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