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Senior System Engineer, NETDEV

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Senior level
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50K-100K
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Join Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team to develop software solutions for network resilience and operational efficiency, focusing on distributed systems and automation.
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Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal or London, United Kingdom
About the Department
Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team builds and runs the infrastructure that runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world's largest networks with data centers in 190 cities worldwide and a couple of large specialized data centers for internal needs.
About the role
Cloudflare operates a large global network spanning hundreds of cities (data centers). You will join a team of talented network automation engineers who are building software solutions to improve network resilience and reduce engineering operational toil.
You will work on a range of tools, infrastructure and services - new and existing - with an aim to elegantly and efficiently solve problems and deliver practical, maintainable and scalable solutions.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

  • BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of proven experience in hands-on server-side
  • Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems
  • Knowledge of programming languages like Python or Golang.
  • Experience with MySQL, Postgres (or equivalent SQL language)
  • Experience with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization
  • Experience in systems Observability.

Bonus Points but not required:

  • Knowledge of Networking engineering, with competencies in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols and vendor equipment: Cisco, Juniper, etc.
  • Experience managing internal and/or external customer requirements and expectations
  • Proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions

Top Skills

Ci/Cd
Containers
Go
Linux
MySQL
Postgres
Python
Unix
Virtualization

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