Systems Engineer, MAPS

The role

Cloudflare’s architecture is built on a homogeneous edge: every server in over 330 cities runs every service—from L4/L7 proxies (FL2, Pingora) and DNS to the Workers runtime, cache, and storage. While this design maximizes hardware utilization, it creates a difficult distributed attribution problem. Machine-level telemetry tells us how loaded a server is, but not which product, customer, or upstream service is responsible for that load.

MAPS (Metrics and Analytics for Product Segmentation) is a newly formed team building the core instrumentation, collection, and data platform to solve this from the ground up. We are architecting a system to continuously measure CPU, network bandwidth, memory, and storage utilization across the entire global fleet without sampling—attributing resource consumption both to the underlying system service and to the specific product, account, and zone being served.

What you will do

You will work across the full lifecycle of a greenfield, high-throughput telemetry system running on every machine at the Cloudflare edge:

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Systems Engineer, MAPS

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The role

What you will do

You will work across the full lifecycle of a greenfield, high-throughput telemetry system running on every machine at the Cloudflare edge:

Nice to have

Hands-on experience writing and verifying eBPF programs, or deep familiarity with the Linux networking stack and scheduler.
Experience designing schemas and query patterns for distributed columnar databases (particularly ClickHouse) at high ingestion rates.
Background in profiling, benchmarking, and debugging performance bottlenecks in production Linux environments (perf, PMU counters, flamegraphs).

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.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

Systems Engineer, MAPS

The role

What you will do

Systems Engineer, MAPS

The role

What you will do

What you need

Nice to have

The data MAPS produces serves two critical functions at Cloudflare

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