Distributed Systems Engineer, Cloudflare
Data Platform - Analytics and Alerts
Web performance and security platform
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Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience working in software development covering distributed systems and scalable APIs
- Strong programming skills (Go is preferable), with a deep understanding of software development best practices for building performant, customer-facing services
- Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks, including Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong understanding of handling high-cardinality metrics at scale
- Strong knowledge of SQL, including extensive experience with complex query optimisation
- A solid foundation in computer science, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and concurrency
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a willingness to debug, troubleshoot, and learn about complex problems at high scale
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with other teams across Cloudflare
- Experience developing and scaling APIs, particularly GraphQL, is a strong plus
- Experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink) for real-time processing is a plus
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like SALT or Terraform is a plus
- Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, is a plus
- If you're passionate about building scalable and performant data platforms using cutting-edge technologies and want to work with a world-class team of engineers, then we want to hear from you! Join us in our mission to help build a better internet for everyone!
What the job involves
- We are looking for experienced and highly motivated engineers to join our DATA Org and help build the future of data at Cloudflare
- As an engineer in our organisation, you will have the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems challenges across different parts of our data stack
- This role is focusing on the Analytics and Alerts group
- Analytics and Alerts: Members of this group are at the forefront of developing our public APIs such as the GraphQL Analytics API, providing customers and internal Cloudflare teams with flexible access to their data
- They will also work on our alerting platform, empowering users to configure and receive near real-time alerts based on the critical logs and metrics observed by our robust data platform
- This includes designing intuitive alerting mechanisms and ensuring the reliability of notification systems
- Develop and enhance our customer-facing APIs focusing on performance, reliability, and an intuitive user experience
- Design, build, and maintain our near real-time alerting platform, from data processing and anomaly detection to reliable notification delivery
- Optimise the performance of complex analytical queries that power our APIs and dashboards, working closely with the database platform team
- Create intuitive and powerful tools that allow customers to explore their data and configure meaningful alerts based on logs and metrics
- Scale our API and alerting infrastructure to support a growing number of internal and external use cases
- Collaborate with front-end engineers and product managers to define API contracts and deliver a seamless data experience for our users
- Ensure the operational health of our APIs and alerting systems by developing comprehensive monitoring, and participating in an on-call rotation (with the flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours as needed)
Application process
- Please submit CV in English
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 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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