Job Details

Senior / Software Engineer, Platforms & Productivity

Hybrid

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team.

Available Locations: Lisbon, London, Denver, Atlanta, Austin

Cloudflares Engineering Team builds and runs the software that handles large amounts of requests on the Internet today. We also build and run the internal tools and platforms that run that software.

Many of Cloudflares critical internal services run on Kubernetes. These services include those responsible for Cloudflares control plane and APIs, data analytics and other internal tools used to manage our global network.

About the team and the role

The Engineering Platform and Productivity team has a charter to build a self-service, resilient, and scalable platform using a combination of Open Source projects, intellectual property, and internal infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth
• Design and build developer productivity tooling
• Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues
• Improve our GitOps systems and practices
• Improve the efficiency of managing resources such as CPU, bandwidth and storage
• Work with app teams to understand their potential challenges and help them choose the best way to architect their systems
• Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive
• Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Ability to work with codebases in Bash, TypeScript and Go
• Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing
• Experience managing and deploying onto production Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
• The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs and drive the effort to solve the problem

Bonus Points

• Experience operating Kubernetes on-premise at scale in capacities including SRE, systems design or architecture
• Providing guidance and building platforms across multiple zones and regions as foundation for other teams to build distributed highly-available applications
• Worked in a platform engineering team/ engineering productivity team in the past

We are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.