Senior Systems Engineer Orpheus Argo Smart Routing

Available Locations: Austin TX

What Youll Do

The Orpheus team was formed to own a very important aspect of Cloudflares systems: enable more reliable network connectivity for Cloudflares products than the Internet itself provides.

Almost all products in Cloudflares portfolio are or will be powered by Orpheus technology including CDN Spectrum Magic Transit Stream Workers Workers AI R2 WARP and more. As a member of the Orpheus team youll be a key technical contributor to the cutting edge network software infrastructure used by those products.

You will work closely with various Engineering teams to translate their requirements into new capabilities on the platform. Likewise you will partner with Network Engineering and SRE to ensure that the technology makes the best use of Cloudflares world-class edge network.

You will participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle from designing and documenting systems to writing code and automated tests to planning managing and monitoring production software deployments. You will work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages including Rust Go Linux networking ClickHouse PostgreSQL Grafana Kubernetes and more.

Engineering teams at Cloudflare operate a Run What You Build model including ours. We are responsible for the health of our system and participate in our teams on-call rotation as part of operational responsibilities.

Because youll be solving problems of massive scale and significance you are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone. You are comfortable in a fast-paced but sensible work environment. You value curiosity and empathy and lead with these values.

Examples of Desirable Skills Knowledge and Experience

• Systems-level programming experience in Go Rust C or C. We use Rust extensively and while experience with the language isnt required a willingness to learn it is.
• A solid grasp of networking protocols in Layers 3 and 4 of the OSI Model.
• Knowledge of HTTP TLS and CDN networks.
• Experience in implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems.
• Strong ability to debug issues in complex systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience/interest in HTTP networking and VPN technologies.
• Experience/interest in network performance monitoring and tuning

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of TCP/IP and Internet routing.
• Professional systems-level programming experience in Rust.
• Working knowledge of statistical-analysis techniques and control theory.
• Experience building tools and APIs.
• Experience with monitoring alerting and debugging large-scale distributed systems
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation.

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

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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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