Remote Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Summary

Join Cloudflare's Kubernetes platform team as an engineer and contribute to building tools for deploying and operating services that make Cloudflare work.

Requirements

• 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

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
• Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000 for Colorado-based hires
• Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000 for New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires
• Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000 for Bay Area-based hires
• Equity participation in Cloudflare’s equity plan
• Health & Welfare Benefits including 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 including 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