Core Systems Reliability Engineer
Cloudflare, Inc.About the role
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
As an engineer on one of our Production Engineering teams, you'll be building the tools to help engineers deploy and operate the services that make Cloudflare work. Our mission is to provide a reliable, yet flexible, platform to help product teams release new software efficiently and safely. You’ll be building the private cloud that Cloudflare developers leverage to build Cloudflare itself.
What you'll do
- Build software that automates the operation of large, highly-available distributed systems.
- Ensure platform security, and guide security best practices
- Document your work and guide fellow developers towards optimal solutions
- Contribute back to the open source community
- Leave code better than we found it
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Recent career experience with Go or Python and at least 3 years experience in the role of full-time software engineer (any language). Go, Python, and Rust are common programming languages at Cloudflare.
- Experience with deploying and managing services using Docker on Linux
- A firm grasp of IP networking, load balancing and DNS
- Excellent debugging skills in a distributed systems environment
- Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing (we use git)
- The ability to break down complex problems and drive towards a solution
- Be passionate about improving User Experience
Bonus points if
- Experience with Deployment, StatefulSets, Persistent Volumes Claims, Ingresses, CRDs on Kubernetes
- Operational experience deploying and managing large systems on bare metal
- Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a large-scale company
- You have practical knowledge of web and systems performance, and extensively used tracing tools like ebpf and strace.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Colorado-based hires and Washington hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $206,000.
- For New York City-based and California (excluding Bay Area): Estimated annual salary of $187,000 - $229,000.
- For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $196,000 - 240,000.
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 future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregn
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