Software Engineer: Resiliency

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!

Location:
Washington DC or Austin TX

Cloudflare’s Infrastructure Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month. We ensure that all of the new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing, global customer base.

What you'll do

As a Software Engineer:
Resiliency, you will be part of a Resiliency Organization responsible for developing and maintaining the systems that manage Cloudflare’s infrastructure  are looking for engineers to join the Maintenance Optimizer team and shape the future of infrastructure reliability. We're building a cutting-edge Maintenance Coordination System in Typescript & Go that will be pivotal in guaranteeing our service level capacity, dynamically allocating hardware resources, and supporting our critical capacity SLOs.

This is a unique opportunity to work on complex, globally distributed systems which underpin core infrastructure and all Cloudflare products. We ensure the seamless operation of our global network. You will play a key role in the development of the infrastructure that powers Cloudflare’s scale.

You will collaborate with the team to understand business needs and develop technical solutions. You will thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and work closely with internal customers to understand their requirements.

Technologies we use:

• Cloudflare Workers, Workers KV, R2, and Durable Objects
• Kubernetes
• Go, Typescript, Python
• For service monitoring we use Prometheus, Grafana and Sentry

Because you’ll be solving problems of massive scale and significance, and shaping the future of the Internet, you are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone in a fast-paced environment.

As an ideal candidate for this position, you are curious, hard-working, and passionate.

A rough list of the skills we would love to see you bring:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related field; OR have relevant background/experience to the field.
• Programming experience in Go, or similar languages
• Experience in designing and implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems
• 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)
• Experience with continuous delivery and deployment of a k8s hosted application
• Understanding of security issues and responsibilities
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
• Fluent in analyses of data sets such as logs
• Strong English language oral and written communications skills
• Designing and building APIs
• Experience with the Cloudflare development stack is a plus

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• At least 4 years of hands‑on…