Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

March 20

Cloudflare

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At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal — to help build a better Internet.

nginx • lua • go • web performance • web security

1001 - 5000

💰 $150M Series E on 2019-03

Description

• Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the Internet better, safer, and more powerful every day. As a Distributed Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, you’ll work on the code that runs close to the end user, runs at a massive scale, and is deployed to 250+ cities around the world. • Cloudflare’s Engineers build and operate the software that helps power 25+ million Internet properties and millions of businesses around the world. Across our engineering organizations, we have opportunities for high caliber, curious and empathetic people to take on big challenges and build some of the best skills in the industry. We’re looking for talented team members to help build high-growth products, help scale our expanding network, build tools to improve availability, performance, uptime, and response times, and make systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale. • Cloudflare is a fast growing company and engineering is an ever-evolving function with teams being formed and redefined often. You will interview for an engineering role at Cloudflare and will have the opportunity to meet with and ultimately select one or more teams.

Requirements

• Understanding at the protocol level, including the differences between what the specs say, and what actually happens on the Internet • Confidence to work in multiple programming languages - could include C, Go, Rust, Python, Lua and even PHP • Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases • Strong systems level programming skills • Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems • Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git) • Good Unix knowledge, patches to Operating Systems a huge plus for some roles • Understanding of security issues and responsibilities • Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems • Fluent in analyses of data sets such as logs • Designing and building APIs • Great oral and written communications skills • Desire to learn and improve • Willing and eager to share knowledge, and mentor

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 • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance • Life & Accident Insurance • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan • Employee Stock Participation Plan