Software Engineer - Load Balancing

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! Location: Austin, TX About Engineering at Cloudflare Cloudflare’s Engineers build and operate the software that helps power 25+ million Internet properties and millions of businesses around the world. Across our engineering organizations, we have opportunities for high caliber, curious and empathetic people to take on big challenges and build some of the best skills in the industry. We’re looking for talented team members to help build high-growth products, help scale our expanding network, build tools to improve availability, performance, uptime, and response times, and make systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale. Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the Internet better, safer, and more powerful every day. As a Software Engineer at Cloudflare, you’ll work on the code that runs close to the end user, runs at a massive scale, and is deployed to 330+ cities around the world. Role Summary We are looking for a talented Systems Engineer to join the Load Balancing team. You will work on a range of microservices written mainly in Go. Technologies we use include Docker, Go, Lua, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC, Kafka, Clickhouse and the usual Unix/Linux tools and workflows. We strive to build reliable, fault-tolerant systems that can operate at Cloudflare’s scale. You will join a team of bright, hard-working, and supportive engineers who are passionate about their craft, and you will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced but sane work environment.

Requirements

First and foremost curiosity and critical thinking
3+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company
Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language
Experience building and operating distributed systems
Experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments
Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
Experience with databases (we use PostgreSQL and Clickhouse)
Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain the software systems that comprise Cloudflare’s Load Balancing product.
Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems to writing code, automated tests, and monitoring production deployments.
Collaborate with internal teams, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.
Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
Mentor team members and work with support teams to ensure customer delight and bring out the best in everyone.
Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health.
Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Go, Rust, and Typescript, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.

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