Systems Engineer - BI Team

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! 

Location - Austin, TX Must be willing to relocate if not in area. 

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 data applications to fuel existing and new business critical initiatives.

About the role

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join our Austin team to scale our development efforts on Platform Tooling initiatives. You will work on building data application tools and frameworks which empowers our Internal Teams. You  will work closely with the Data Engineers on the team to add new features and maintain our data pipelines written in Go. You can expect to interact with various languages and technologies including, but not limited to Go, React, and Clickhouse.

What you'll do

• Design and implement key features of our internal applications
• Work closely with a cross functional team to design features and solutions that solve critical business problems
• Contribute in improving an evolving platform architecture for scalability, observability and reliability
• Continuously involved in knowledge sharing and mentorship

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields 
• Experience working with Go, Python, Java, or equivalent programming languages
• Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Experience with CI/CD, Gitlab CI
• Excellent communication & problem solving skills 
• Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams and work through ambiguous business requirements

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with container based deployments such as Docker & Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform or something similar
• Familiarity with Javascript, Typescript, and React

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: 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.

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