Systems Engineer, Engagement & Privacy Analytics

About the Department
Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a hugely successful business we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflares edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.

About the Team
Our team builds on top of the Cloudflare development platform pushing its limits to deliver tooling ranging from open source devtooling contributions to bespoke Enterprisegrade product solutions for massivetraffic volumes and bespoke customer demands.

What started with Cloudflare Zaraz a solution that made thirdparty tooling safer faster and more privacyconscious has grown into a broader mandate. Today our scope has broadened to include stewardship of CDNJS the open source Managed Components project and a range of strategic initiatives focused on empowering developers with more control over data privacy and analytics.

At our core were building new ways to help web application owners streamline development and accelerate growth on the Internet.

We are a tightknit team communicating & collaborating regularly. We like to celebrate our achievements support each other when we make mistakes and hold each other and our work to the highest standard.

What youll do
In this role you will join worldclass engineers in shaping new products built entirely on Cloudflares global network while continuing to nurture the growing impact of existing offerings ensuring continual reliability bestinclass performance and the implementation of new features and functionality.

You will be encouraged to bring your ideas forward and own your code from inception to release delivering solutions at every layer of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. On any given day you might:

• Write a design document outlining your strategy to tackle a specific challenge.
• Ship a new feature that integrates multiple technologies.
• Fix a bug affecting how our user experience renders.

You can expect to work with a variety of languages and technologies including but not limited to TypeScript Go and Rust. We use Cloudflare Workers heavily and creatively. If applicable to ongoing projects you will also help maintain the health and availability of services by participating in an oncall rotation.

About you
We want you to love it here! This role is a great fit for you if:

• You have a passion for meeting business needs while building technically innovative solutions and you excel at balancing bigpicture goals with technical detail.
• You are bold and persistent in your efforts to get your work across the finish line.
• You are excited to collaborate and communicate with engineers across Cloudflare contributing across many layers of the stack.
• You take pride in shipping effective reliable code.
• You are energized by learning new skills tackling challenging debugging sessions and sharing your knowledge with others.
• You believe that thorough documentation is just as important as delivering code.
• You want to join a team that upholds a culture of support open and honest communication and collaborative problemsolving.

Examples of Desirable Skills Knowledge and Experience

• 2 years of experience working with highvolume software applications with a strong focus on the TypeScript programming language.
• Ability to scope work on and independently deliver initiatives.
• Knowledge of at least one modern stronglytyped programming language such as Go Rust or C.
• Strong written communication skills for contributing to both internal and publicfacing technical documentation as well as authoring blog posts.
• Strong understanding of how web pages load and operate including the role of cookies browser rendering and clientside execution models

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with the ecosystem of thirdparty scripts (e.g. marketing pixels analytics tags consent managers) and their impact on performance privacy and user experience
• Experience building reliable highperformance distributed systems or working on cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with the Cloudflare Workers development platform.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source software projects.

Locations: Lisbon

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.

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