Senior Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE), Edge

Requirements

• Aptitude for identifying problems, owning them and working with others to solve them
• Linux systems experience
• 3 years experience in an SRE role or a role with similar functions
• Software development skills in some programming language such as Go or Python
• Understanding of distributed software systems and large scale system design tradeoffs
• Intermediate experience of common network protocols like DNS and HTTP
• Understanding of routing protocols and concepts such as BGP and IP anycast

Nice to Haves

• Experience with the Linux kernel and Linux software packaging
• Performance analysis and debugging
• Configuration management systems such as Saltstack, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Squid or Apache
• SQL databases
• Time series databases such as OpenTSDB, Graphite, Prometheus or Grafana
• Key/Value stores

What You'll Be Doing

• Build tools to constantly improve service availability, performance, and operational velocity
• Nurture a passion for an “automate everything” approach
• Focus on the immediate state and functionality of the Cloudflare platform
• Leverage monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics tools
• Develop and enhance the Cloudflare platform and its capabilities

Perks and Benefits

• Experience with continuous / rapid release engineering
• Strong tooling and automation development experience
• Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment
• Experience working with large scale production distributed systems
• A history of contributing to Open Source Software