Software Engineer - Workers Core Platform

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! 

Locations: Austin TX 

About the Department

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.

The Workers teams makes it possible for Cloudflare customers to run JavaScript and WebAssembly on Cloudflare's edge network. We build and maintain the serverless technology that executes billions of requests per month on behalf of developers and grants them nearly limitless control over how their requests are handled and responded to.

The Workers Core Platform team delivers features that enable Cloudflare Workers customers to manage, configure and deploy their code. The team also ensures our critical core platforms scale and provide fundamental, reusable building blocks for customers.

What you will do

As a member of the Workers Core Platform team, you will collaborate with Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to design, build and support large scale, customer facing systems that push the boundaries of what is possible at Cloudflare's edge computing platform. You will drive projects from idea to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower the Cloudflare customers. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including, but not limited to Go, Kubernetes, Postgres SQL, Typescript, JavaScript, Rust. You will be expected to support the health and availability of critical services by being part of an on-call rotation.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 3+ years of professional experience building and managing software applications.
• Understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, object-oriented principles and API design.
• Knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as Go, TypeScript, Rust, Java, C#, or JavaScript.
• Experience in designing and architecting distributed systems.
• Experience in designing and implementing REST APIs.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, familiarity with cloud concepts.
• Experience in SQL, familiarity with common relational database concepts.
• Experience in testing, debugging, troubleshooting, optimizing and identifying possible failures.
• Familiarity with the web and technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Kafka, Clickhouse.

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.

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