Build and automate tools for deploying services at Cloudflare, ensuring platform security, guiding developers, and contributing to open source.
Available Locations: Austin
About the role
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. Core platforms we operate at Cloudflare include:
What You'll Do
What You'll Need
Bonus Points
About the role
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. Core platforms we operate at Cloudflare include:
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Developer tools, CI, and CD systems
- Vault, Consul
- Terraform
- Temporal Workflows
- Cloudflare Developer Platform
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
What You'll Need
- Recent career experience with Go or Python and at least 3 years experience in the role of full-time software engineer (any language). Rust is an added bonus.
- 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
- 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.
- Alerting and monitoring (Prometheus/Alert Manager), Configuration Management (salt)
Top Skills
Consul
Docker
Go
Ip Networking
Kafka
Kubernetes
Linux
Python
Temporal Workflows
Terraform
Vault
Cloudflare Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
Boston, MA, United States
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