Senior Systems Engineer

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

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. Come join us! Available Locations: Austin or Lisbon About the Department At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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. About the Team Domain management is the foundation for any online presence and Cloudflare Registrar is our answer to a simple and straightforward experience. The Registrar product manages the full lifecycle of the domains, including searching/registering for new domains and transferring/renewing existing ones. Onboarding domains on Cloudflare is the gateway to the vast array of Cloudflare services. What you'll do We are looking for a talented systems engineer to be part of our engineering team. Come be part of the team and work with a group of passionate, talented engineers that will be creating innovative products. The amount of requests being processed is massive and we utilize all the latest technology to ensure its scalability and availability.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on designing, building and scaling data infrastructure
Experience with product teams to understand goals and develop robust and scalable solutions that align with the customer need
Strong communication skills, especially around articulating technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences
Experience working on, and deploying, large scale systems in Typescript, Go, Ruby/Rails, Java, or other high performance languages
Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
Strong systems level programming skills
Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems that all websites face
Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cloudflare Developer Platform
Experience with Ruby or Go (or a strong desire to learn)
Experience working with OpenAPI
Experience with AI coding tools
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Kibana, Grafana, and/or Prometheus
Experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres)
Experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI
Experience with DNS (and DNSSEC)
Experience in the registry/registrar industry

Responsibilities

Designing, building, running and scaling tools and services that support the full spectrum of domain management.
Analyzing and communicating complex technical requirements and concepts, identifying the highest priority areas, and carving a path to delivery
Improving system design and architecture to ensure stability and performance of the internal and customer-facing compliance concerns
Working closely with Cloudflare's Trust and Safety team to help make the internet a better place
Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of production services, including participation in on-call rotations

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