Software Engineer, Cloudflare
Kubernetes
$137-198k
Salary is dependent on location + Equity
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$137-198k
Salary is dependent on location + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Experience managing production Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
- Recent experience with configuration management frameworks such as SaltStack or Ansible
- Knowledge of how container runtimes work inside of Linux (isolation, storage, and networking)
- Ability to work with codebases in Bash, TypeScript and Go
- A firm grasp of IP networking including routing and iptables
- Excellent debugging skills in a Linux environment
- Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing
- The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs and drive the effort to solve the problem
Desirable
- Experience operating Kubernetes on-premise at scale in capacities including SRE, systems design or architecture
- Providing guidance and building platforms across multiple zones and regions as foundation for other teams to build distributed highly-available applications
- Operational experience with Etcd, Prometheus, Ceph, Rook, SaltStack, Vault, Calico, other common CNIs like Cilium
What the job involves
- As an engineer on the Kubernetes platform team, you'll be building the tools to help engineers deploy and operate the services that make Cloudflare work
- Our mission is to provide a reliable, yet flexible, platform to help product teams release new software efficiently and safely
- The role includes both software engineering and DevOps operational responsibilities
- Improve Kubernetes, Ceph and Prometheus automation, configuration management and other tooling
- Design scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth
- Improve the efficiency of managing resources such as CPU, bandwidth and storage
- Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues
- Improve our GitOps systems and practices
- Work with app teams to understand their potential challenges and help them choose the best way to architect their systems on Kubernetes
- Contribute back to the open source community
- Some of our favorite open source projects include: Prometheus, Rook.io, Kubevirt, Contour, Envoy, Consul, cdk8s, Vault, Ceph, Cloudprober, Etcd, Calico, Terraform
- Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms
Our take
Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with around 25 million global internet properties on its network.
Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.
This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.
The cloud infrastructure market reached $53 billion in 2022. While the Big 3 (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) own 65% of the market, that still leaves billions of dollars left for companies such as Cloudflare. Its ambitious and successful work is likely to continue being a crucial feature of the web, but in 2023, placed it in the crosshairs of hackers looking to exploit its infrastructure. The beginning of 2024 saw Cloudflare vow to bolster its security and patch vulnerabilities.
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Company benefits
- Minimum 8 weeks of paid parental leave
- Equal opportunity employer
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
- 401(k) plans
- Family planning and fertility program
- Gym discounts
- Commuter Benefits Program
Company values
- Principled - We create our products and features with a global mindset and democratize important and innovative technologies that drive adoption of the latest standards
- Curious - Our team is made up of pioneering innovators that approach new challenges with interest and a desire to learn
- Transparent - We hold ourselves accountable when we make mistakes—and we do everything we can to learn from them
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Lee Holloway
(Lead Engineer)Lee started their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.
Michelle Zatlyn
(President & COO)Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.
Matthew Prince
(CEO)Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare as CEO in March 2009.
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