Infrastructure Systems Optimization Engineer, Cloudflare
$129-224k
Salary may be adjusted depending on work location
Web performance and security platform
Job no longer available
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$129-224k
Salary may be adjusted depending on work location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Confidence to work in multiple programming languages - including C/C++, Go, Rust, Java, Python, Lua and other high performance languages
- Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
- Strong systems level programming skills
- Excellent Linux operating system knowledge, patches to Operating Systems, and lightweight virtualization/VMM knowledge is a huge plus
- Excited by the idea of optimizing complex distributed systems, discovering system bottlenecks and proposing solutions to solve in current system architecture or to inform future software/hardware development
- Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)
- Knowledgeable about compute, storage, network hardware architecture, validation, performance benchmarking, debugging, and edge/datacenter deployment models - experience in serverless a big plus
- Understanding of security issues and responsibilities
- Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
- Previous experience in testing, measuring, and/or simulating hardware and software performance/benchmarking and an understanding of no-stone-left-unturned experimentation
- Fluent in analyses of data sets such as logs
- Excellent at developing tools and automation to evaluate and optimize system HW/SW performance
- Eager to work with internal HW engineering team to help validate, debug and proactively identify opportunities to maintain the most performant, power efficient and cost effective next-generation compute hardware and firmware for Cloudflare’s system software, services and workloads
- Excited to drive experiments on different system HW and SW optimizations working cross-functionally with Performance, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Sourcing, and Product teams to deploy your recommendations globally
- Track record of driving engineering projects from idea to experiment to implementation
- Great oral and written communications skills
- Desire to learn and improve
- Willing and eager to mentor and share your knowledge internally and externally
Desirable
- Experience with Lua, Rust or Go (or a strong desire to learn)
- Experience with Javascript or Typescript
- Experience with a web server / reverse proxy system (NGINX, Apache, Varnish)
- Experience in deploying SaaS in different infrastructures at scale (hyperscale cloud, edge/ distributed system infrastructure)
What the job involves
- Cloudflare is a distributed system and provides infrastructure that spans the globe, on a mission to make the internet better, safer, and more performant everyday
- As one of the systems optimization engineers working on the Cloudflare Infrastructure team you will need to make thoughtful infrastructure systems, both Hardware (HW) and Software (SW), optimization choices affecting a significant portion of the Internet
- Our team focuses on evaluating and delivering new infrastructure and optimizing our current/future infrastructure enabling the best use and efficiency of our compute, storage, and network
- As an Infrastructure Systems (HW/SW) Optimization Engineer, you will work with colleagues across our Hardware System Engineering team and with our internal partners - Software Engineering, Production/Performance Engineering, Product teams, and Sourcing teams to drive optimization experiments, evaluate and tune our software stack for greater efficiency of our current hardware infrastructure and help and inform decisions, based on software and workload performance, on new hardware/architectures being deployed
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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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back within 2 weeks
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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
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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