System Engineer, Cloudflare Hyperdrive

CloudflareSan Francisco, CA
Hybrid

About The Position

This is a newly found team focused on building out our brand-new vector database offering, designed to let you build full-stack, AI-powered applications entirely on Cloudflare’s global network. In this role, you will work with a top-notch engineering team to expand Cloudflare's capabilities by ensuring continual reliability, maintaining best-in-class performance, and implementing new features and functionality. You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. On any given day, you might write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem, modify how R2 Storage processes requests, or fix a bug in how our user experience renders. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including, but not limited to Typescript, Go, Rust.

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience working with distributed systems or developing on cloud platforms.
  • Experience managing high volume software applications.
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
  • Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language such as Go, Rust, or C++.
  • Strong expertise in Machine Learning, including experience with data processing and retrieval algorithms.

Nice To Haves

  • Familiarity with Vector Databases and associated Machine Learning Algorithms.
  • Experience working in low-latency real time environments such as game streaming, game engine architecture, high frequency trading, payment systems.
  • Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale Linux-based distributed system.

Responsibilities

  • Expand Cloudflare's capabilities by ensuring continual reliability.
  • Maintain best-in-class performance.
  • Implement new features and functionality.
  • Own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers.
  • Write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem.
  • Modify how R2 Storage processes requests.
  • Fix a bug in how our user experience renders.

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.
  • 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.
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  • Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.
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