Data Engineer/Architect, Cloudflare
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Build realtime data capturing architecture from various user events - UI events, backend events and stitch them together for advanced analytics and personalization systems
- Experience building/expanding analytics systems at lakehouse scale, ideally with OSS systems - Apache Iceberg, Clickhouse, or similar
- Data modeling using different methods (dimensional data modeling, ER modeling, etc)
- Experience implementing quality measurement processes
- Familiarity with batch-style OSS ELT/ETL system (dbt/airflow/etc) and experience managing them
- Familiarity with marketing attribution system and tag management
- Familiarity with global data privacy requirements governed by laws like GDPR/CCPA/etc and how it affects data capture, modeling and analysis
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and service security
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems/microservices
- Familiarity with event driven architecture
- Experience with API tooling and standards (Swagger/OpenAPI, OAuth/JWT)
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action
What the job involves
- This is a highly autonomous role that enables the self-serve team to personalize user journeys through precise targeting
- Think of a user that clicked X, visited Y, and purchased Z. We want to predict what they want to do next and then offer that next product in a live product A/B test to improve conversions. If you have worked with tools such as Posthog, Amplitude, Heap, or better yet, have built something similar, we want to hear from you. Our primary use-case is to capture and process thousands of user events in a native architecture and then serve it to internal audiences - both for productional use-cases and for internal reporting
- You must be comfortable with setting up data lakes, understanding A/B testing architectures, and building the cloud tools that you may have otherwise used in the past. Because Cloudflare is the cloud that we sell to our developers
- As the founding data engineer, you will have the opportunity to pick an existing data architecture to build upon, build a new one from scratch, or choose a hybrid approach. You tell us what the best system looks like. You will learn about the many data tools and architectures that are being used across the company - traditional databases, modern architectures to manage 20% of the internet traffic, BI summaries, real-user monitoring offered to our customers
- Bonus points if you have done this to scale a startup
- This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license
Salary benchmarks
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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