Systems Engineer, SSLTLS Team

Available Locations: Austin

Role Summary

Back in 2014 Cloudflare launched Universal SSL to provide all of our customers with the security of encrypted traffic between visitors and Cloudflares network. On the day we flipped the switch we doubled the amount of sites using SSL/TLS on the internet. Since then weve been working on providing even more ways to encrypt traffic easier and more effectively. To better serve our customers were constantly improving our systems for issuing managing and deploying TLS certificates. By joining Cloudflares SSL/TLS Team you can help ensure that every site owner has the ability to provide their users with a secure connection.

Your code will help ensure millions of websites have access to encryption. As such the results of your code will be felt by millions of site owners and billions of visitors every day. Were continuously providing technology to site owners that was previously only available to the largest organizations. Your contributions will help make the web a faster safer better and more heavily encrypted place.

Cloudflare is looking for a Systems Engineer to help us build services with RESTful APIs and their own datastores using Go and other languages. You will also write and maintain functional specifications for your service so others know how it this role you will integrate multiple services via message queue systems and evaluate 3rd party and open source tools. You will design and implement alerts write procedures for ops to handle such alerts or serve as an escalation point for unresolved operational issues. You will also need to read and understand code from a legacy codebase to migrate logic to a modern services architecture and review the code of fellow engineers via pull requests. We strive to build reliable fault-tolerant systems that can operate at Cloudflares scale.

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

• 3 years of professional experience building backend systems at a technology company
• Experience writing production-quality code in Go (or other languages with a willingness to learn Go)
• Proven experience building and operating distributed systems
• Proficiency with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail
• Track record of delivering well-tested reliable code for production environments

Desirable Skills Knowledge and Experience

• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and full-stack applications
• Familiarity with PKI/TLS concepts and certificate management
• Experience writing technical documentation and specifications
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Understanding of distributed systems constraints: performance caching data storage/retrieval
• Experience with message queues (Kafka RabbitMQ etc)

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: 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.

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