The Software Engineer: Resiliency develops and maintains systems for managing Cloudflare's infrastructure at scale, ensuring reliability and service level capacity through innovative solutions.
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:
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:
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
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
Financial Benefits
Time Off
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 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 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
Top Skills
Cloudflare Workers
Durable Objects
Go
Grafana
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Python
R2
Sentry
Typescript
Workers Kv
Cloudflare San Francisco, California, USA Office
101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94107
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