Software Engineer, Production SLO

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: Austin, TX

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! 

About the Department

Cloudflare’s engineering teams build and maintain the systems and products that power our global platform. A global platform which is within approximately 50 milliseconds of about 95% of the Internet connected population, serving on average, over 46 million HTTP requests per second.

About the Team

The Production SLO team builds and operates tooling that provides consistent and reliable data collection, visualization, and alerting for SLOs., visualisation, and alerting for Cloudflare’s engineering teams and their services. These tools are essential for helping teams understand how their services perform for customers and are tightly integrated into our automated release processes.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for highly motivated software engineers to join our Production SLO team.  You’ll have a strong programming background with a deep understanding and experience developing and maintaining  distributed systems. You’ll need to be able to communicate effectively with engineers across the company to understand the behaviours of our systems and products in order to deliver tooling to meet their service behaviour. You will also work closely with product managers to support our SLO infrastructure for enterprise customers.

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Proven track record as a software engineer or similar role.
• Programming experience with one of the following languages. Go or Rust. 
• Experience with measuring uptime metrics like availability & latency SLOs/SLIs 
• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining secure and highly-available distributed systems
• Ability to develop, document and execute SLO plans to verify systems continue to operate as expected
• Create and maintain SLO documentation, including SLO infrastructure, and availability reporting 
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to understand how their systems function and interact with other Cloudflare systems
• Help drive continued improvements in the software development testing processes
• Be a good communicator, provide clear and concise feedback to engineering and product teams