Database Reliability Engineer
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.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Locations: London, UK
About the department
The Database Platform Team, a vital part of Cloudflare's Infrastructure Engineering organization, is dedicated to building and operating databases at scale. Our mission is to empower internal engineering teams, enabling them to deliver products quickly and reliably through a robust, automated, and scalable data infrastructure.
We achieve this by automating database infrastructure, strengthening resiliency, and allowing applications to scale effortlessly. This effectively removes the operational complexities of database management, letting product teams concentrate on innovation.
As the Database Platform Team enters an exciting period of growth and expansion, this role offers a key opportunity to develop new features, integrate with database tooling, and advance automation across our platform. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of our database platform
What you'll do
The ideal candidate will work alongside database engineers, software developers, and Infrastructure teams, contributing to the evolution of database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies. They will play a critical role in enhancing PostgreSQL infrastructure and improving database reliability, automation, and tooling.
If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, and database tooling, we’d love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
- Develop and optimize database schemas, queries, and procedures for performance and scalability.
- Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning.
- Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
- Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
- Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.
Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:
- Experience building large multi-tenant databases, operating, capacity planning, and designing for failover, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
- Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
- Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
- Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt) .
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
- Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
- Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)
- Experience developing software in Go, Python or C/C++
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.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
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