Infrastructure Tooling Software Engineer, Cloudflare

$154-188k

Salary is benchamarked New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) rates only and may vary on further locations. This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan and ESPP

Python

Rust

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Austin

Web performance and security platform

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Web performance and security platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Be an early applicant

$154-188k

Python

Rust

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Austin

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Company mission

Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.

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Who you are

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
If you like thinking about optimizing and scaling globally distributed systems, this may be the team for you!
Because you’ll be solving problems of great 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
Working in an infrastructure composed of emergent, planned, and adapted services
Programming experience in Rust, Go, Python or similar language. You are either an expert in Rust or are willing to become one
Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
Experience with Distributed Systems at scale is a plus
Designing and building APIs, CLIs, and web applications which are used constantly by critical infrastructure teams
Great oral and written communications skills
Strong desire to learn and improve
Ready to participate in oncall rotations
CS degree or equivalent experience
Passion for solving unique problems and learning to understand complex systems

What the job involves

The Infrastructure Tooling Team within the Resiliency Engineering organization is responsible for defining, building and supporting the tools that can be leveraged by the rest of the Infrastructure Engineering team to manage our infrastructure at scale
In this role you’ll have an opportunity to work on our internal infra-control plan application "Zinc". On the Zinc team, you'll be building a critical component of the overall Cloudflare stack. Zinc is a Rust based application that is used to manage our global fleet of servers and network devices. Zinc must be high performance, highly available, and have few shared dependencies since nearly everything else has a dependency on Zinc

Our take

Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with around 25 million global internet properties on its network.

Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.

This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.

The cloud infrastructure market reached $53 billion in 2022. While the Big 3 (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) own 65% of the market, that still leaves billions of dollars left for companies such as Cloudflare. Its ambitious and successful work is likely to continue being a crucial feature of the web, but in 2023, placed it in the crosshairs of hackers looking to exploit its infrastructure. The beginning of 2024 saw Cloudflare vow to bolster its security and patch vulnerabilities.

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Insights

Led by a woman

16% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

Trustpilot (1.7)

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Company benefits

Minimum 8 weeks of paid parental leave
Equal opportunity employer
Unlimited paid time off policy
Work from home opportunities
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
401(k) plans
Family planning and fertility program
Gym discounts
Commuter Benefits Program

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Lee Holloway

(Lead Engineer)

Lee started their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.

Michelle Zatlyn

(President & COO)

Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.

Matthew Prince

(CEO)

Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare as CEO in March 2009.

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