Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
- Demonstrable professional experience building and managing large-scale distributed systems or Linux production environments.
- Proficiency in at least one systems programming or scripting language (e.g., Go, Rust, C/C++, Python) with a track record of writing clean, maintainable code.
- Deep understanding of Linux/Unix operating system internals (e.g., storage subsystems, memory management) and core networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, BGP).
- Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, SaltStack).
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a methodical approach to diagnosing complex system-level failures.
Bonus Points
- Experience managing containerised workloads at scale using Kubernetes, Docker, or similar orchestration platforms.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies for infrastructure.
- Contributions to open-source systems software projects or active participation in the broader systems engineering community.
- Experience with any of our existing tooling, such as Kafka and Temporal
- Good experience of harnessing AI to drive robust solutions
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.