Cloudflare Edge Platform Systems Reliability Engineer

7 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Cloudflare, Inc. Full time

About Us

At Cloudflare, Inc., we are dedicated to building a better Internet. Our mission is to protect and accelerate any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. With one of the world's largest networks powering millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies, we strive to ensure their web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network, getting smarter with every request.

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 them 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.

About the Role

This is a superb opportunity to join a high-performing team and scale our high-growth network as Cloudflare's business grows. As a Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will build tools to constantly improve service availability, performance, and operational velocity on our Edge platform running in more than 320 cities in over 120 countries. You will nurture a passion for an "automate everything" approach that makes systems failure resistant and ready to scale.

SREs focus on the immediate state and functionality of the Cloudflare platform around the world, leveraging an array of monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics tools while developing and enhancing the Cloudflare platform and its capabilities. We own a wide portfolio of applications and services, running a tight feedback loop of developer and operator patterns. The ideal SRE candidate has a passionate curiosity about how the Internet fundamentally works and has a strong knowledge of networking, Linux, and TLS along with coding ability in Go or Python.

The Salary for this role is approximately $120,000 - $180,000 per year, depending on experience.

Requisite Skills

  • Aptitude for identifying problems, owning them, and working with others to solve them
  • Linux systems experience
  • 3 years experience in an SRE role or a role with similar functions
  • Software development skills in some programming language such as Go or Python
  • Understanding of distributed software systems and large-scale system design tradeoffs
  • Intermediate experience of common network protocols like DNS and HTTP

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience include:

  • Experience with the Linux kernel and Linux software packaging
  • Performance analysis and debugging
  • Configuration management systems such as Saltstack, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
  • Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Squid, or Apache
  • SQL databases
  • Time series databases such as OpenTSDB, Graphite, Prometheus, or Grafana
  • Key/Value stores
  • Internetworking and BGP

Bonus Points

  • Experience with continuous / rapid release engineering
  • Strong tooling and automation development experience
  • Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment
  • Experience working with large-scale production distributed systems
  • A history of contributing to Open Source Software


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