Platform Engineer

Available Locations: Atlanta US Austin US Denver US New York US Seattle US Washington DC US Lisbon Portugal

About this Role:

We are seeking an experienced Systems / Collaboration Tooling Engineer to join our IT Operations Infrastructure team. In this role you will be a technical lead working closely with IT operational leadership to design and maintain critical corporate engineering applications and infrastructure. Have a lead role to facilitate and build automation necessary for scale to a 5 billion dollar company in the next few years and beyond.

Responsibilities:

• Coach and Mentor: As a Technical SME collaborate with IT Operations and Leaders to through a growth mindset to enable the team through cross training process improvement and cross-functional collaboration as a trusted resource and point of escalation.
• Design & Implementation: Administer and implement to enterprise and security standards SaaS enterprise applications common to companies in our space including email service desk collaboration tooling etc. Take a lead role in building or enabling both native and custom integrations; partnering closely with teams such as Enterprise Integration and Enterprise Applications
• Automation: Develop and implement automation scripts and tools (e.g. PowerShell Python Typescript Ansible REST API) to streamline routine tasks improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Cloud Management and Access: Manage and optimize our public cloud environment primarily operated in GCP and Google Workspace. Familiarity with SSO / SAML / SCIM and where access intersects with employee experience.

Infrastructure and SRE: Familiarity with common methods of configuration management such as Terraform and experience building and operating corporate IT infrastructure and working with network engineering team members. This includes exposure to reliability engineering APN/NPM and troubleshooting infra application DNS API etc. Issues.

• Security & Compliance: Maintain policy configurations and security best practices for Corporate Engineering applications ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards and comfortable working with leadership and security partners. Familiarity with access attestation change management and participating in IT audits.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience with design development streamlining of Enterprise processes using automation and technical enablement.
• Strong knowledge and administrative experience with collaboration tools such as Google Workspace Slack Jira GitLab etc.
• Strong knowledge in Identity Access Management working cross functionally to enable employee lifecycle management including both processes (e.g.. new hire onboarding) and technology.
• Strong troubleshooting experience in both SaaS applications and branch office network environments. Comfortable working with and escalation to technical infra and app teams.
• Experience in areas such as network engineering service management and endpoint management is desired but not required.
• Experience in Agile methodology and working in or with Agile teams.
• Intermediate programming experience (Python Golang TypeScript Bash etc.) with experience applying automation with IT operational / infra space.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in written and spoken English.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York City Washington Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $122000 - $149000
• For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of $111000 - $135000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses support caregiving build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs including parental pregnancy health medical and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were 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.

Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: 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.

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 privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused 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 opportunities 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 e-mail at or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco CA 94107.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were 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.

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 customers--at 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 privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused 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 e-mail at or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco CA 94107.