Senior Software Engineer Backend
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
At Cloudflare were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a normalized problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow while ensuring that every improvement no matter how small is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward youll fit right in.
Available Position :- Bengaluru
About The Role
A Security Operations Center (SOC) is typically something that a company will have to understand their systems security risks and alert when any issues arise. We want to enable SOC teams to leverage Cloudflare data logging and events directly in Cloudflares dashboard. This means we want to add new functionality to understand and react to any threats. This role is all about dealing with large amounts of data and helping customers understand it very quickly as well as notifying customers about important happenings on that data.
You will be working on systems that span multiple disciplines from databases to queues to search. Well be not only processing data as it streams through but also allowing customers to search recent records take actions inline and document their entire process. As one of the founding engineers on the team youll have a large influence on the architecture and will help decide the features and functionality of the product.
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.
Desirable skills knowledge and experience
If you think some of the below list describes you (or what you aspire to be) we would love to talk to you. Also please note that while not listed as a requirement we want to call out that this role will need the flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
- First and foremost curiosity and critical thinking
- 6 years of experience
- 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 team-specific 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
- 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 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.
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Senior IC
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