Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Go and/or Rust)Hybrid or Remote
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. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
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. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
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. Your work will focus on building robust, secure, and high performance distributed systems. We are a small engineering team operating at a massive scale, so what you do will have a huge impact.
Examples of software systems at Cloudflare include: A TLS/HTTP proxy to make the connection from eyeball to edge as fast and secure as possibleFiltering malicious traffic and handling good traffic according to customer configurationContent optimization that takes content served from customer sites and makes it more performantA platform that runs "serverless" Workers and provides a key value storeA reverse-proxy system that caches customer website content according to customer configurationOptimization of connections from Cloudflare to our customers' origin servers to reduce their load and increase performanceOur 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 secondExamples 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 InternetConfidence to work in multiple programming languages - bonus points for Go and/or RustExperience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all casesExcited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problemsExperience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)Good Unix knowledge, patches to Operating Systems a huge plus for some rolesUnderstanding of security issues and responsibilitiesExperience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systemsFluent in analyses of data sets such as logsDesigning and building APIsCompensation For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $196,000 - $240,000For 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.
What Makes Cloudflare Special? We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!
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