Software Engineer, Cloudflare

• Willing to write code in Go
• Relish opportunities to dive into new technologies, and a demonstrated ability to do so
• Awareness of networking concepts down to layer 2
• Commitment to high code quality standards, both individually and working as part of a team
• Comfortable understanding and working with complex distributed systems
• Understanding of techniques to manage risk when evolving critical systems
• Excellent communicator and team player

Desirable

• You’ll participate in the ongoing development of a load distribution system that works at the scale of Cloudflare’s edge network. Millions of users and customers depend upon this system every hour of every day, even if it isn’t visible to them
• You’ll take on challenging projects that require focus and determination, pragmatism and innovation, and careful consideration of risk
• You’ll get to know the details of Cloudflare’s software and hardware infrastructure in order to design software that behaves well even when failures occur
• You’ll collaborate with engineers across the company, from operations teams to the teams that build our customer-facing products
• You’ll inspect the production behaviour of our systems, to check that they are working as intended and spot opportunities for improvement
• You’ll be part of the on-call rota for the occasional cases when our operations teams need to escalate problems