Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - USRemote
About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.
About the Role 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.
Examples of software systems at Cloudflare include: A TLS/HTTP proxy to make the connection from eyeball to edge as fast and secure as possible.Filtering malicious traffic and handling good traffic according to customer configuration.Content optimization that takes content served from customer sites and makes it more performant.A platform that runs "serverless" Workers and provides a key value store.A reverse-proxy system that caches customer website content according to customer configuration.Optimization of connections from Cloudflare to our customers' origin servers to reduce their load and increase performance.Our Authoritative DNS server and our public resolver 1.1.1.1.One of the biggest data pipelines in the world, operating at well over 25M events per second.Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience: 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 - bonus points for Go and/or Rust experience.Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases.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.Compensation Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $196,000 - $240,000.For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $187,000 - $229,000.For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $206,000.Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.
Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!
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