Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Go and/or Rust)
Hybrid
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.
Role location: London or Lisbon
About the Role
Cloudflare’s Engineers build and operate the software that helps power 25+ million Internet properties and millions of businesses around the world. We’re looking for talented team members to help build high-growth products, help scale our expanding network, build tools to improve availability, performance, uptime, and response times, and make systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.
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
We operate some of the fastest, and most widely distributed services on the Internet. 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 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 (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
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!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
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