Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Summary

Join Cloudflare's mission to build a better Internet by working as a Distributed Systems Engineer on the code that runs close to the end user, at massive scale, and is deployed to 250+ cities around the world.

Requirements

• Understanding at the protocol level, including the differences between what the specs say, and what actually happens on the Internet
• Confidence to work in multiple programming languages - bonus points for Go and/or Rust experience
• Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
• Strong systems level programming skills
• Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems
• Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)
• Good Unix knowledge, patches to Operating Systems a huge plus for some roles
• Understanding of security issues and responsibilities
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
• Fluent in analyses of data sets such as logs
• Designing and building APIs
• Great oral and written communications skills
• Desire to learn and improve
• Willing and eager to share knowledge, and mentor

Responsibilities

• Work on the code that runs close to the end user
• Run at a massive scale
• Deployed to 250+ cities around the world

Benefits

• Estimated annual salary of $196,000 - $240,000 for Bay Area-based hires
• Estimated annual salary of $187,000 - $229,000 for New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires
• Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $206,000 for Colorado-based hires
• Equity participation 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
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave