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 at Cloudflare. Come join us!

ABOUT ENGINEERING AT CLOUDFLARE

Cloudflare’s Engineers build and operate the software that helps power 25+ million Internet properties and millions of businesses around the world. Across our engineering organizations, we have opportunities for high caliber, curious and empathetic people to take on big challenges and build some of the best skills in the industry. We’re looking for talented team members to help build high-growth products, help scale our expanding network, build tools to improve availability, performance, uptime, and response times, and make systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.
Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the Internet better, safer, and more powerful every day. As a Software Engineer at Cloudflare, you’ll work on the code that runs close to the end user, runs at a massive scale, and is deployed to 330+ cities around the world.

EXAMPLES OF DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

Some team-specific things we think are interesting and want to highlight.

• Understanding systems at the network protocol level, including the differences between what the specs say, and what actually happens on the Internet
• Strong systems level programming skills
• Optimization of complex solutions
• Experience with databases (we use PostgreSQL and Clickhouse)
• Understanding what it takes to build and maintain distributed systems
• Good Unix knowledge, having submitted patches to Operating Systems a huge plus for some roles
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
• Fluent in analyses of data sets such as logs
• Understanding of security and fraud detection systems

If you think some of this list describes you (or what you aspire to be) we would love to talk to you. While not listed as a requirement, we also want to call out that most roles need the flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

• First and foremost curiosity and critical thinking
• 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)
• Designing and building APIs
• Understanding of what it takes to build secure systems
• Confidence to work in multiple programming languages - bonus points for Go and/or Rust