Infrastructure Tooling Software Engineer, Cloudflare

$154-188k

+ Equity plan; Salary is benchmarked for candidates based in New York City, Washington, Washington D.C and California (excluding Bay Area) only and may vary by other locations

SQL
Excel
Prometheus
Senior and Expert level
Austin
Cloudflare

Web performance and security platform

Open for applications

Cloudflare

Web performance and security platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Open for applications

$154-188k

+ Equity plan; Salary is benchmarked for candidates based in New York City, Washington, Washington D.C and California (excluding Bay Area) only and may vary by other locations

SQL
Excel
Prometheus
Senior and Expert level
Austin

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Company mission

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

Role

Who you are

  • You bring a passion for meeting business needs by building technical, innovative solutions
  • You excel to understand how big-picture goals inform technical details
  • You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment
  • You build great relationships with your stakeholders and deeply understand their needs
  • Most importantly, you have a track record of having past teams respect you as both a technical leader and manager
  • At least two years of engineering management experience
  • At least 5 years of hands on software development experience on meaningfully complex systems
  • Strong technical foundation: large distributed system design and operations, being comfortable interacting deeply with data (SQL, Prometheus) about how your systems are operating
  • Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
  • Demonstrate a track record of leading a team including hiring, on-boarding, and professional development. You inspire your team to reach higher. You’re as good as explaining “why” as you are “how”

What the job involves

  • Cloudflare’s Resiliency Engineering Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month
  • Resiliency Engineering ensures 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 customer base
  • 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
  • At most companies, you build applications “in” the Cloud - here at Cloudflare we’re building a Cloud; a uniquely performant, globally distributed and highly available Cloud
  • In this role, you will lead a team of passionate and talented engineers that are building the internal Control Plane used by our SREs to manage our internal IaaS platform
  • You will be responsible for tools that support the management of a growing, globally distributed fleet of servers, storage, and network gear spread across a thousand colos worldwide
  • You will play an active part in shaping the future of the infrastructure that propels Cloudflare’s scale and growth

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16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

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

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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