Job Specifications
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. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
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!
Available Locations: London, UK or Lisbon, Portugal
Role Summary
The Egress team was formed to own a very important aspect of Cloudflare's network-as-a-service: Egress connectivity for our vast portfolio of products.
As a member of the Egress team, you will be a key technical contributor to a cutting edge network software infrastructure used by a growing number of Cloudflare products to connect to any destination from Cloudflare's network. Among the products powered by this technology is WARP, our Zero Trust platform, and Cloudflare's egress proxy for the iCloud Private Relay product.
You will work closely with various Engineering teams to translate their requirements into new capabilities on the platform. Likewise you will partner with Network Engineering and SRE to ensure that the technology makes the best use of Cloudflare's world-class edge network.
You will participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems, to writing code and automated tests, to planning, managing, and monitoring production software deployments. You will work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Rust, Go, Linux networking, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Kubernetes, and more.
Engineering teams at Cloudflare operate a Run What You Build model, including ours. We are responsible for the health of our system and participate in our team's on-call rotation as part of operational responsibilities.
Because you’ll be solving problems of massive scale and significance, you are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone. You are comfortable in a fast-paced but sensible work environment. You value curiosity and empathy and lead with these values.
Role Responsibilities
Make daily progress on assigned engineering tasks, such as designing systems, writing specs, writing and pushing code via git, writing release plans for complex changes, rolling out production releases and working with other teams to coordinate system actions
Participate in daily and ad-hoc team meetings to share progress and collaborate
Participate in the team’s on-call schedule to ensure uptime of our production systems
Investigating customer issues that are escalated to the Egress team for triage and resolution
Responding to questions from other teams in the Egress team’s internal, public chat room
Role Requirements
Must-Have Skills
Systems-level programming experience in Go, Rust, C, or C++. We use Rust extensively, and while experience with the language isn't required a willingness to learn it is.
A solid grasp of networking protocols in Layers 3 and 4 of the OSI Model.
Knowledge of HTTP, TLS, and CDN networks.
Experience in implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems.
Strong ability to debug issues in complex systems.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Experience/interest in HTTP networking and VPN technologies.
Experience/interest in network performance monitoring and tuning
Bonus Points
Knowledge of TCP/IP and Internet routing.
Professional systems-level programming experience in Rust.
Experience building tools and APIs.
Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging large-scale distributed systems
Experience participating in an on-call rotation.
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
About the Company
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
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