Platform Configuration 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 Locations: Remote France, Remote Germany, Remote Netherlands, Remote Portugal, Remote UK, Remote US, Paris, France, Munich, Germany, Amsterdam, Netherlands, London, United Kingdom, Lisbon, Portugal 

About the Department

Cloudflare’s Production Engineering Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month. Production Engineering ensures all of the new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing customer base.

The Platform Configuration Team within the Production Engineering organization is responsible for ensuring that we can provision and manage our infrastructure in a manner that supports both rapid innovation and safe change at scale to provide the speed and reliability that Cloudflare is known for.

The Platform Configuration Team has a unique role in Cloudflare in that we get visibility into many different aspects of how Cloudflare’s systems work.  This is an incredible opportunity to work on Cloudflare’s next generation of configuration management systems.

What you'll do

In this role, you'll help us:

• Re-imagine and redesign Configuration Management tooling for a rapidly evolving, global infrastructure capable of handling over 20% of all Internet traffic
• Improve and extend our existing deployment tools, frameworks and processes to provide key enhancements to extensibility and testability
• Design, implement and teach best-practices giving our internal users the most flexibility with the easiest learning-curve
• Own operations, reliability, availability and security of our platform configuration systems
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge

You may be a good fit for our team if you have:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related field; OR have relevant background/experience to the field.
• A deep understanding of performance, security, and user interactions in complex, distributed systems
• Experience developing a configuration management framework at scale (e.g. SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible)
• Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritize between competing demands
• Proficiency in Python or similar language
• Experience in designing and implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems
• Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
• Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)
• Strong English language oral and written communications skills

Available Locations:

Remote US

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000.
• For New York City-based and California (excluding Bay Area) and Washington D.C. hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000.
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the