Software Engineer Infrastructure Automation
Software Engineer Infrastructure Automation
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Job Description
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. 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds 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!
Available Locations: Lisbon or London
About the Role
An engineering role at Cloudflare provides an opportunity to address some big challenges at scale. We believe that with our talented team we can solve some of the biggest security reliability and performance problems facing the Internet. Just how big
- We have in excess of 340 Terabits of network transit capacity
- We operate 330 Pointsofpresence around the world
- We serve more traffic than Twitter Amazon Apple Instagram Bing & Wikipedia combined
- Anytime we push code it immediately affects over 200 million internet users
- Every day up to 20000 new customers signup for Cloudflare service
- Every week the average Internet user touches us more than 500 times
We are looking for talented Software Engineers to build and develop the platform which makes Cloudflare customers place their trust in us. Our Software Engineers come from a variety of technical backgrounds and have built up their knowledge working in different environments. But the common factors across all of our reliabilityfocused engineers include a passion for automation scalability and operational excellence. Our Infrastructure Software Systems and Automation team focuses on the automation to scale our infrastructure.
Our team is wellfunded and focused on building an extraordinary company. This is a superb opportunity to join a highperforming team and scale our highgrowth network as Cloudflares business grows. You will build tools to constantly improve our scale and speed of deployment. You will nurture a passion for an automate everything approach that makes systems failureresistant and readytoscale.
Cloudflare Software Engineers focus on automating our infrastructure installations and decommissions at scale. We enable our Data Centre Engineering teams by allowing them to install new data centers replace servers and networking in existing data centers as quickly and efficiently as possible while not impacting existing infrastructure and customer services. While our focus is on automation and accurate asset tracking there is an element of ongoing operational support of Data Center Engineers and other teams. We also review upcoming hardware changes and update automation and configuration management to cater to these advances.
Many of our Software Engineers have had the opportunity to work at multiple offices on interim and longterm project assignments. The ideal Software Engineering candidate has strong knowledge of Python and Golang with Rust an advantage. As we are automating server and networking installations knowledge of Linux Hardware and Networking is ideal. We prefer to hire experienced candidates; however raw skill trumps experience and we welcome strong junior applicants.
Requisite Skills
- Confidence to work in multiple programming languages bonus points for Python Go and/or Rust experience
- 5 years of relevant Development experience
- Strong skills in network services including Rest APIs and HTTP
Examples of desirable skills knowledge and experience
Strong systems level programming skills
- Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
- Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)
- Linux systems administration experience
- Experience with Kubernetes and docker
- Tooling and automation development experience
- Network fundamentals DHCP ARP subnetting routing firewalls IPv6
- Configuration management systems such as Saltstack Chef Puppet or Ansible
- SQL databases (Postgres or MySQL)
- Time series databases (OpenTSDB Graphite Prometheus)
- The ability to understand service and device metrics and visualize them using Grafana
- Great oral and written communications skills
- Desire to learn and improve
Bonus Points
- Experience with continuous / rapid release engineering
- Experience developing systems that are highly available and redundant across regions
- Performance analysis and debugging with tools like perf sar strace dtrace
- Experience with the Linux kernel and Linux software packaging
- Internetworking and BGP experience
- Key/Value stores (Redis KyotoTycoon Cassandra LevelDB)
- Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx Varnish HAProxy Apache
Some tools that we use
- Netbox
- Apache Airflow
- Salt
- Docker Kubernetes
- Nginx
- Python
- Django
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Prometheus
What Makes Cloudflare Special
Were not just a highly ambitious largescale technology company. Were a highly ambitious largescale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customersat no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacycentric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use it is the first consumerfocused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed 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.
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. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their or any other persons 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. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
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Employment Type
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