Distributed Systems Engineer

6 days ago

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

Job Overview

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:

  • Temporal - workflow automation framework
  • Kafka and Zookeeper
  • Developer tools, CI, and CD systems
  • Vault, Consul, Terraform
  • Kubernetes
Key Responsibilities
  • 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
Requirements
  • Recent career experience with Go or Python and at least 3 years experience in the role of full-time software engineer (any language). Go, Python, and Rust are common programming languages at Cloudflare.
  • 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 reducing toil and adding automation
Bonus Points
  • Experience developing Temporal or Cadence workflow automation
  • Operational experience deploying and managing large systems on bare metal
  • Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a large-scale company
  • Experience with Deployment, Persistent Volumes Claims, Ingresses, CRDs on Kubernetes
  • You have practical knowledge of web and systems performance, and extensively used tracing tools like ebpf and strace.
Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

  • For Colorado and Texas based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000
  • For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000.
  • For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000
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.

  • 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
  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Life & Accident Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
  • Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

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 or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

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