Software Engineer, Service Automation; Kubernetes

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Software Engineer, Service Automation (Kubernetes) About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s 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 Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time e join us!

Austin, TX (Hybrid, 2 days per week in‑office). Many of Cloudflare’s critical internal services run on Kubernetes. These services include those responsible for Cloudflare’s control plane and APIs, data analytics and other internal tools used to manage our global network. These Kubernetes platforms are purpose‑built from the ground up and run on bare metal Linux in different regions around the world.

The scale we work at involves tens of thousands of containers and terabits per second of network traffic. The team takes pride in knowing this platform helps run parts of the global Internet.

• Improve Kubernetes, Ceph and Prometheus automation, configuration management and other tooling
• Design scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth
• Improve the efficiency of managing resources such as CPU, bandwidth and storage
• Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues
• Improve our Git Ops systems and practices
• Work with app teams to understand their potential challenges and help them choose the best way to architect their systems on Kubernetes
• Contribute back to the open source community
  • Some of our favorite open source projects include:
    Prometheus, Rook.io, Kubevirt, Contour, Envoy, Consul, cdk8s, Vault, Ceph, Cloudprober, Etcd, Calico, Terraform
• Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms

• Experience managing production Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
• Recent experience with configuration management frameworks such as Salt Stack or Ansible
• Knowledge of how container runtimes work inside of Linux (isolation, storage, and networking)
• Ability to work with codebases in Bash, Type Script and Go
• A firm grasp of IP networking including routing and iptables
• Excellent debugging skills in a Linux environment
• Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing
• The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade‑offs and drive the effort to solve the problem

• Experience operating Kubernetes on‑premise at scale in capacities including SRE, systems design or architecture
• Providing guidance and building platforms across multiple zones and regions as foundation for other teams to build distributed highly‑available applications
• Operational experience with Etcd, Prometheus, Ceph, Rook, Salt Stack, Vault, Calico, other common CNIs like Cilium

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

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…