Technical Support Engineer, Cloudflare
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2+ days a week in office
Web performance and security platform
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Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Ability and willingness to work occasional weekends, holidays, and after hours
- You are comfortable communicating in writing and always put the customer first
- You are a motivated self-starter who always looking to expand your skill sets
- You take initiatives and capable of learning new technologies / systems / features with little guidance
- You enjoy troubleshooting and solving unknown technical problems and issues
- You are inquisitive and able to communicate to different kind of audiences
- You have a solid grasp of problem solving with command line tools (dig/traceroute/curl/tcpdump)
- You understand how the Internet works
Desirable
- You have experience writing scripts in Bash, Python, JavaScript, or other scripting language
- You have experience installing and configuring web servers like Apache, Nginx, and IIS
- You are familiar with Cloudflare and have a site actively using our platform
- You have web development, hosting, or customer support experience
What the job involves
- The Customer Support Team solves complicated problems and answers technical inquiries via phone, email, chat, and social media
- Whether it is a WordPress blogger using our services for free or a global Enterprise business with petabytes of web traffic, our team is always eager to assist
- We are the eyes and ears of Cloudflare, acting as the real-time voice of the customer to help communicate their needs and real-world use cases back to the rest of the company - to help build a better service and future product development
- Cloudflare is seeking a Technical Support Engineer to join our team
- You will work with our customers on a variety of technical support issues as well as the Technical Operations team that is responsible for running our global distributed network
- This is a position where you will learn the inner workings of Cloudflare’s technology and gain a deeper understanding of internet technologies
- This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed
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
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
Company values
- Principled - We create our products and features with a global mindset and democratize important and innovative technologies that drive adoption of the latest standards
- Curious - Our team is made up of pioneering innovators that approach new challenges with interest and a desire to learn
- Transparent - We hold ourselves accountable when we make mistakes—and we do everything we can to learn from them
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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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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