Senior Systems Engineer, Edge
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: Bengaluru
About The Team
Infrastructure Engineering is responsible for the world’s most reliable, observable, performant, and safe network ecosystem. Our customers rely on our products and systems to safely modify, troubleshoot, and release products without external impact.
Our external customers rely on us to provide seamless and predictable incident, traffic, policy management, resulting in the fastest and safest network services in the world.
We are accountable for the overall performance of internal and external facing services, guiding our product teams to optimal configurations and maximum efficiency. From the moment that a packet enters the Cloudflare ecosystem, we know exactly what its expected purpose and behavior is and we are capable of determining and exposing anomalous behavior.
The Cloudflare network makes it possible to solve challenges at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.
What You’ll Do
- Develop Software: Design, write, and deliver software that improves Cloudflare's Edge platform
- Work on large scale systems: Scale and evolve systems through software and automation to improve reliability and velocity
- Maintain and manage distributed systems: Manage and be part of the on-call rotation that supports the largest distributed edge system in the world.
- Document, Propose and Implement: Collaborate with other engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that support our growing user base.
- Guide and mentor: Participate in the constant cycle of knowledge sharing and mentoring.
- Optimize and Automate: Research and introduce cutting-edge technologies. Develop and maintain sustainable tools that work on an extremely large scale.
- Open Source: Contribute to open-source
We are growing quickly and focused on building an extraordinary company. This is a systems reliability engineering role and is a superb opportunity to be part of a high performing team and help to support Cloudflare’s mission and help build a better internet.
You will build services and APIs to constantly improve availability, performance and uptime.
You may be a good fit for our team if you have:
- Up to 8 years of experience managing distributed systems
- Proficiency in distributed Linux/Unix environments
- Proficiency in high-level programming (e.g., Golang, Python)
- Proficiency in configuration management (e.g., Saltstack, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
- Proficiency in networking protocols Layer 3-7 of the OSI model
- Experience in performance analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting
- Experience in SQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL)
- Experienced with being part of a rotation that tends to high priority reliability objectives
- Experience in load balancing and reverse proxies (e.g., Nginx)
- Familiarity with Key/Value stores (e.g., Redis)
- Familiarity with Internet working and BGP
- Exquisite written and verbal communication skills
- Strong bias for action
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
- Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment
- Experience with high-bandwidth transit Internet working and routing
- Passion for tooling and automation
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!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
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