Database Reliability Engineer, Cloudflare
$154-188k
+ Employee Stock Participation Plan. Salary applicable to candidates in Washington, D.C., and may vary in other locations
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$154-188k
+ Employee Stock Participation Plan. Salary applicable to candidates in Washington, D.C., and may vary in other locations
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that
- We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
- If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, and database tooling, we’d love to hear from you!
- Experience building large multi-tenant databases, operating, capacity planning, and designing for failover, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
- Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring
- Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning
- Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana
- Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt)
Desirable
- Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects
- Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy
- Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)
- Experience developing software in Go, Python or C/C++
What the job involves
- The Database Platform Team, a vital part of Cloudflare's Infrastructure Engineering organization, is dedicated to building and operating databases at scale. Our mission is to empower internal engineering teams, enabling them to deliver products quickly and reliably through a robust, automated, and scalable data infrastructure
- We achieve this by automating database infrastructure, strengthening resiliency, and allowing applications to scale effortlessly. This effectively removes the operational complexities of database management, letting product teams concentrate on innovation
- As the Database Platform Team enters an exciting period of growth and expansion, this role offers a key opportunity to develop new features, integrate with database tooling, and advance automation across our platform. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of our database platform
- The ideal candidate will work alongside database engineers, software developers, and Infrastructure teams, contributing to the evolution of database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies. They will play a critical role in enhancing PostgreSQL infrastructure and improving database reliability, automation, and tooling
- Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL databases in production environments
- Develop and optimize database schemas, queries, and procedures for performance and scalability
- Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning
- Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning
- Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions
- Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools
- Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health
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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