Senior Software Engineer: Distributed Systems, WARP

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Available locations: Lisbon, Portugal, London, United Kingdom, Austin, United States

What you'll do

As a Senior Software Engineer in the WARP team you will join a team that works on the backend system that allows our customers to manage their devices via our Zero Trust Network solution.
In this role, you will work on the design, capacity planning, development, maintenance and enhancement of features that make our WARP and Zero Trust product, such as Device Posture, Orchestration and Notification.

We are looking for engineers that are versatile and display leadership qualities capable of setting technical direction of the product, with a focus on growth, scalability and high-availability.
You will support the management team on the planning, priority, deadlines and deliverables of solutions to our customers requirements.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Technical leadership experience
• Experience managing high available systems with disaster recovery support.
• Experience with Go, Rust or similar programming languages
• Experience in Typescript
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs at scale
• Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Knowledge on distributed NoSQL databases
• Excellent debugging experience and optimization skills
• Experience with Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to the team projects and objectives
• Influence a team of engineers, coach and mentor a distributed team.
• Support the management team on the strategy and roadmap of the team, identifying opportunities and critical projects for the success of the team and product.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across the Zero Trust teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Support on the management of project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project : In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!

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