Software Engineer - London
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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!
Software Engineer All Levels
Hiring Process & Cloudflares Engineering Teams
If you want to build things at Cloudflare but are unsure about which team to apply for this role will give you the best opportunity to match with a team that is most aligned to your experience skill and ambition. Weve created a hiring process designed to find great candidates and figure out where they fit best as we go along. At the end of the hiring process you will have the opportunity to meet with one or more teams to find out if there is a fit but if you discover during the interview process that a particular team or product area is interesting to you let us know.
About Engineering at Cloudflare
Cloudflares Engineers build and operate the software that helps power 25 million Internet properties and millions of businesses around the world. Across our engineering organizations we have opportunities for high caliber curious and empathetic people to take on big challenges and build some of the best skills in the industry. Were looking for talented team members to help build highgrowth products help scale our expanding network build tools to improve availability performance uptime and response times and make systems failureresistant and readytoscale.
Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe on a mission to make the Internet better safer and more powerful every day. As a Software Engineer at Cloudflare youll work on the code that runs close to the end user runs at a massive scale and is deployed to 330 cities around the world.
Examples of software systems at Cloudflare:
Since we dont know what team youll be working on quite yet heres some things that we do at Cloudflare. This is not a complete list but gives a good indica
tion of the wide variety of things you might work on.
- 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 reverseproxy 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.
- Data Science diving deep into HTTP request data identifying malicious and fraudulent traffic patterns and building novel solutions for mitigating such attacks.
- Full Machine Learning platform and model development from feature engineering to model development to release and monitoring.
- One of the biggest data pipelines in the world operating at well over 250M 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.
Requirements for any role
If you think some of this list describes you (or what you aspire to be) we would love to talk to you. While not listed as a requirement we also want to call out that most roles need the flexibility to be oncall outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
- First and foremost curiosity and critical thinking
- 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)
- Designing and building APIs
- Understanding of what it takes to build secure systems
- Confidence to work in multiple programming languages bonus points for Go and/or Rust
Examples of desirable skills knowledge and experience
Some teamspecific things we think are interesting and want to highlight.
- Understanding systems at the network protocol level including the differences between what the specs say and what actually happens on the Internet
- Strong systems level programming skills
- Optimization of complex solutions
- Experience with databases (we use PostgreSQL and Clickhouse)
- Understanding what it takes to build and maintain distributed systems
- Good Unix knowledge having submitted patches to Operating Systems a huge plus for some roles
- Experience with monitoring alerting and debugging high volume production systems
- Fluent in analyses of data sets such as logs
- Understanding of security and fraud detection systems
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.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to changing the application process providing documents in an alternate format using a sign language interpreter or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job please contact us via email at or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco CA 94107.
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