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!

DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Ability to work with codebases in Bash, TypeScript and Go
• Excellent debugging skills in a Linux environment
• Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing
• Experience managing and deploying onto production Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
• The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs and drive the effort to solve the problem

ABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE

The Engineering Platform and Productivity team has a charter to build a self-service, resilient, and scalable platform using a combination of Open Source projects, intellectual property, and internal infrastructure. The charter includes to build tools and services that help easily integrate a base set of capabilities into Cloudflare’s products. These services have cross cutting concerns that 100s of fellow engineers use as the building blocks at Cloudflare. The team also writes services that is redundant for each product development team to build and that serve high volumes of requests every day.
As an engineer in the Engineering Productivity and Platforms organization, you’ll be building and managing tools to help engineers deploy and operate the services that make Cloudflare work. Our mission is to provide a reliable, yet flexible, platform to help product teams release new software efficiently and safely. The role includes both software engineering and DevOps operational responsibilities. The ideal candidate will care deeply about providing other engineers with an excellent development experience.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design and build scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth
• Design and build developer productivity tooling
• Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues
• Improve our GitOps systems and practices
• Improve the efficiency of managing resources such as CPU, bandwidth and storage
• Work with app teams to understand their potential challenges and help them choose the best way to architect their systems
• Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive.
• Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms