Network Hardware Engineer

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

36d•Onsite

About The Position

As a pivotal technical contributor within the Network Hardware Engineering (NetHW) team, you will drive the selection and qualification process for network devices used in Cloudflare's Global Network. The NetHW team manages the New Product Introduction (NPI) process for all network devices. Our responsibilities also include the evaluation and qualification of new production network operating system images and versions. Furthermore, we provide essential support by reproducing bugs to assist Operations with TAC cases and testing new features and major configuration updates.

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
Proven ability to conduct thorough evaluation and experimentation, including testing, measurement, and/or simulation of hardware performance
Extensive experience with networking hardware architecture, validation, performance benchmarking, debugging, and deployment
Deep knowledge of network engineering and protocols used in data center switching and routing as well as Internet routing
Track record of driving engineering projects from idea to experiment to implementation
Demonstrated success in working with OEM/ODMs and technology vendors
Professional-level proficiency in Python or similar programming and/or scripting languages
Familiarity with various coding agents and other AI tools and technologies

Nice To Haves

Adept at automating traffic generation equipment (Spirent/Ixia) and test cases
In-depth hardware knowledge of platforms (ASICs, TCAMs, Packet-Pipelines, etc)
Experience with Optical Line Systems and troubleshooting transceiver issues
Familiarity with different network operating systems such as Junos, IOS-XR, EOS, SONiC, and ArcOS
Experience with white-box network switches and open source projects
Proficient in using observability and monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana, with the ability to analyze and observe trends over time.
Hands-on experience with configuring and validating RoCEv2 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) fabrics, specifically implementing Priority Flow Control (PFC) and Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) on network devices.

Responsibilities

Lead the introduction of new network hardware systems, including detailed engineering validation in lab environments
Gather requirements, contribute to network architecture, and execute hardware design and product validation
Partner with Network Engineering & Operations, Datacenter Engineering & Operations, and other operational teams to make network hardware decisions
Develop tools and automation to effectively evaluate network hardware performance
Assist operational engineers by troubleshooting, reproducing, and resolving network hardware issues
Document and share results and updates via blog/wiki posts, ticketing systems, and internal presentations

Benefits

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 released 1.1.1.1 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.
We don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
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