Data Engineer

About Us

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. 

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 Location - Lisbon, this position is eligible to be remote in Lisbon only.

About the team

The Business Intelligence team at Cloudflare is responsible for building a centralized cloud data lake and an analytics platform that enables our internal Business Partners and Product teams with actionable insights and also provides a 360 view of our business. Our goal is to democratize data, support Cloudflare’s critical business needs, provide reporting and analytics via self-service tools to fuel existing and new business critical initiatives.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our team to scale our data platform and product insights initiatives. You will work with a wide array of data sources to build integrated data pipelines that process billions of records each day and influence our critical business initiatives. 

Success in this role comes from marrying a strong data engineering background with product and business acumen to deliver scalable data pipelines and analytics solutions that can enable advanced analytics via a self-service user interface.

What you'll do

• Design, implement and support end to end scalable data pipelines for multiple data products 
• Work closely with a cross functional team of data scientists and analysts and internal stakeholders on strategic initiatives 
• Contribute in improving an evolving data platform for scalability, observability and reliability
• Partner with product and other data engineering teams to extract, transform and load data from various sources using big data technologies
• Build rich data sets that drive innovation in data driven insights at scale within the company
• Understand data landscape i.e tooling, tech stack, source systems etc. and work closely with the data engineering team in Austin and San Francisco to improve the data collection and quality

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields
• 3+ years of industry experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related fields
• Strong programming skills with Go, Python or any JVM based programming language
• Experience in writing advanced SQL queries
• Knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage/computing principles
• Solid understanding of big data technologies such as Spark, BigQuery, Kafka etc. 
• Strong communication skills

Bonus Points

• Experience with container based deployments such as Docker & Kubernetes
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or other cloud storage platforms
• Experience in building RESTful and microservices applications is a plus

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

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: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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.