Senior/Software Engineer, Platforms & Productivity

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.

Available Locations: Lisbon or London

About the Department

Cloudflare’s Engineering Team builds and runs the software that handles large amounts of requests on the Internet today. We also build and run the internal tools and platforms that run that software. Individual engineering teams are typically responsible for large areas with considerable impact, and able to execute autonomously within that space to deliver value to their customers - be they internal or external. Many of Cloudflare’s critical internal services run on Kubernetes. These services include those responsible for Cloudflare’s control plane and APIs, data analytics and other internal tools used to manage our global network.

About the team and the role

The Engineering Platform and Productivity team has a charter to build a self-service, resilient, and scalable platform using a combination of Open Source projects, intellectual property, and internal infrastructure. The charter includes to build tools and services that help easily integrate a base set of capabilities into Cloudflare’s products. These services have cross cutting concerns that hundreds of fellow engineers use as the building blocks at Cloudflare.

What you’ll do

• Design and build scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth
• Design and build developer productivity tooling
• Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues
• Improve our GitOps systems and practices
• Improve the efficiency of managing resources such as CPU, bandwidth and storage
• Work with app teams to understand their potential challenges and help them choose the best way to architect their systems
• Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive
• Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Ability to work with codebases in Bash, TypeScript and Go
• Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing
• Experience managing and deploying onto production Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
• The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs and drive the effort to solve the problem

Bonus Points

• Experience operating Kubernetes on-premise at scale in capacities including SRE, systems design or architecture
• Providing guidance and building platforms across multiple zones and regions as foundation for other teams to build distributed highly-available applications
• Worked in a platform engineering team/ engineering productivity team in the past

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

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.

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