Systems Engineer

Requirements

• Experience: Proven track record as a software engineer or similar role with a deep understanding of developing and maintaining distributed systems.
• System Design: Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and highly-available distributed systems.
• Programming Languages: Programming experience with one of the following languages: Go, Rust, or Python.
• Reliability Metrics: Deep understanding and hands-on experience measuring uptime metrics like correctness, availability, and latency using SLOs/SLIs.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working with Clickhouse, Prometheus, GraphQL, and Postgres.
• Experience working with data pipelines with a focus on reliability and scale.
• Experience working with synthetic traffic & load testing tools.
• Experience developing reliable, extensible platforms that other engineers can trust and leverage.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build the Platform: Create and maintain production reliability testing infrastructure and availability reporting.
• Define Reliability Metrics: Measure uptime metrics like correctness, availability, and latency SLIs/SLOs. Develop, document, and execute SLI/SLO plans to verify systems continue to operate as expected.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with engineering teams to understand how their systems function and interact with other Cloudflare systems in production at a huge scale.
• Communicate & Improve: Provide clear and concise feedback to engineering and product teams as an excellent communicator. Help drive continued improvements in the software development and reliability measurement processes.

Perks and Benefits

• Equity: Eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
• Health & Welfare Benefits:
  • Medical/Rx Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Spending Accounts
  • Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
  • On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
  • Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Financial Benefits:
  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Life & Accident Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan
• Time Off:
  • Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
  • Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave