Data and Analytics Engineer

About Us

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: Lisbon or Remote Portugal

About the team

You will be part of the Network Strategy team within Cloudflare’s Infrastructure Engineering department. The Network Strategy team focuses on building both external and internal relationships that allow for Cloudflare to scale and reach user populations around the world. Our group takes a long term and technical approach to forging mutually beneficial and sustainable relationships with all of our network partners. 

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Data and Analytics Engineer to join our team to scale our data insights initiatives. You will work with a wide array of data sources about network traffic, performance, and cost. You’ll be responsible for building data pipelines, doing ad-hoc analytics based on the data, and automating our analysis. Important projects include understanding the resource consumption and cost of Cloudflare’s broad product portfolio.

A candidate will be successful in this role if they’re flexible and able to match the right solution to the right problem. Flexibility is key. Cloudflare is a fast-paced environment and requirements change frequently.

What you'll do

• Design and implement data pipelines that take unprocessed data and make it usable for advanced analytics
• Work closely with other product and engineering teams to ensure our products and services collect the right data for our analytics
• Work closely with a cross functional team of data scientists and analysts and internal stakeholders on strategic initiatives 
• Build tooling, automation, and visualizations around our analytics for consumption by other Cloudflare teams

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Excellent Python and SQL (one of the interviews will be a code review)
• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields, or equivalent experience
• Minimum 3 years of industry experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science or related field with a track record of extracting, transforming and loading large datasets 
• Knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage/computing principles
• Excellent communication & problem solving skills 
• Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams and work through ambiguous business requirements

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Airflow 
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform or other analytics databases

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.

Athenian Project: We created 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 a