Software Engineer, Cloudflare

• First and foremost curiosity and critical thinking
• 3+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company
• Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, C++, or a similar systems-level language
• Experience building and operating distributed systems
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
• Experience with databases (we use PostgreSQL, Clickhouse and Memcached)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership

Desirable

• 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
• We are looking for a talented Systems Engineer to join the Security Rules team
• You will work on a range of microservices written mainly in Rust
• Technologies we use include Docker, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, gRPC, Kafka, Clickhouse and the usual Unix/Linux tools and workflows
• We strive to build reliable, fault-tolerant systems that can operate at Cloudflare’s scale
• You will join a team of bright, hard-working, and supportive engineers who are passionate about their craft, and you will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced but sane work environment
• This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed
• Design, implement, and maintain the software systems that comprise Cloudflare’s Application Security Product Offering such as Rate Limiting, Web Application Firewall and more
• Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems to writing code, automated tests, and monitoring production deployments
• Collaborate with internal teams, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems
• Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code
• Mentor team members and work with support teams to ensure customer delight and bring out the best in everyone
• Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health
• Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Rust, Go, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes