The System Engineer will improve network resilience and reduce operational toil by creating software solutions, focusing on practical and scalable approaches.
Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal or London, United Kingdom 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
- 2+ years of proven experience in hands-on server-side
- 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:
- Highly Proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions
- Knowledge of Networking engineering, with competencies in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols and vendor equipment: Cisco, Juniper, etc.
- Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems
- Experience managing internal and/or external customer requirements and expectations
Top Skills
Ci/Cd
Containers
Go
MySQL
Postgres
Python
Unix/Linux
Virtualization
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