Systems Engineer Authoritative DNS

Available Locations: Austin TX

Working Approach: Hybrid 2 days from local office & up to 3 days from home

Summary

As a Systems Engineer on the Authoritative DNS team at Cloudflare you will be a key contributor to one of the systems that help build a better Internet. You will take ownership of medium-to-large projects driving them from initial design to successful completion with some supervision.

In this role you will act as a natural point of contact for your projects mentor junior engineers and help improve the resilience and architecture of our systems. We are looking for an engineer who can solve complex issues with minimal help and contribute to shaping features and processes within a talented collaborative team.

About the authoritative DNS team

Cloudflare runs one of the largest DNS infrastructures in the world. We run DNS for millions of Internet properties globally. Aggregated our authoritative DNS and resolver platforms handle around 3 trillion DNS queries per day

Our DNS systems are custom built internally so weve developed a lot of proprietary technology that operates at scale and we are iterating constantly to meet new scaling and reliability requirements.

You will get to be part of a team that builds and maintains one of the core Cloudflare systems. You will maintain and expand our DNS infrastructure and implement features for our customers. We like to think outside the box and come up with novel approaches and solutions that scales.

Responsibilities

• Design scope and implement medium-to-large features and projects that may involve multiple team members.
• Write high-quality maintainable and well-tested code that simplifies and improves the systems your team owns.
• Serve as a mentor and onboarding guide for junior team members helping them grow through thoughtful code and design reviews.
• Act as a subject matter expert for moderately complex systems becoming a go-to person for questions about the projects you work on.
• Debug and resolve complex service issues with minimal assistance improving system resilience through refactoring and re-architecting.
• Proactively identify issues affecting the team and propose effective solutions to improve our processes and technology.
• Collaborate with Product and other stakeholders to provide meaningful input on product requirement documents (PRDs).

Requirements / Must-Have Skills

• BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• A strong professional background (typically 3 years) in software or systems engineering.
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more systems programming languages such as Go Rust Python C or similar.
• Proven experience in designing and building scalable distributed systems.
• Ability to drive projects to completion and scope work effectively for yourself and other team members.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex systems independently.
• Strong communication and mentorship skills with a history of helping others on your team succeed.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience running established team meetings or technical discussions.
• Contributions to technical documentation or talks that guide your team or organization.
• Experience interviewing and providing meaningful feedback on technical candidates.
• Familiarity with building services in a large-scale high-performance environment.
• Open source contributions is a big bonus
• Knowledge of DNSSEC and various security extensions to DNS
• Knowledge of HTTP TLS and CDN Networks

We encourage you to apply even if you dont feel you meet every single requirement. Were building a diverse team and are keen to hear from people who can bring different perspectives and experiences to Cloudflare.

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!

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