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Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Edge

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

Available Locations: Austin

About The Role We are looking for talented Systems Reliability Engineers to build and operate our Edge platform running in more than 320 cities in over 120 countries. Our SREs come from diverse technical backgrounds and have built up their knowledge working in different environments, but common factors across all of our reliabilityfocused engineers include a passion for automation, scalability, and operational excellence. We support our services in a follow the sun model with offices in East Asia, Europe and North America. This is a superb opportunity to join a highperforming team and scale our highgrowth network as Cloudflares business grows. We live at the boundary between systems, network, and software, and love improving the glue that holds them together. Working with us, you will build tools to constantly improve service availability, performance, and operational velocity. You will nurture a passion for an automate everything approach that makes systems failure resistant and ready to scale. SREs focus on the immediate state and functionality of the Cloudflare platform around the world, leveraging an array of monitoring, alerting and diagnostics tools while developing and enhancing the Cloudflare platform and its capabilities. We own a wide portfolio of applications and services, running a tight feedback loop of developer and operator patterns. The ideal SRE candidate has a passionate curiosity about how the Internet fundamentally works and has a strong knowledge of networking, Linux and TLS along with coding ability in Go, Rust, or Python.

Requisite Skills

• Aptitude for identifying problems, owning them and working with others to solve them
• Linux systems experience
• 3 years experience in an SRE role or a role with similar functions
• Software development skills in some programming language such as Go, Rust, or Python
• Understanding of distributed software systems and largescale system design tradeoffs
• Intermediate experience of common network protocols like DNS and

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• Experience with the Linux kernel and Linux software packaging
• Performance analysis and debugging
• Configuration management systems such as Saltstack, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• Workflow automation systems such as Temporal or Apache Airflow
• Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Squid or Apache
• SQL databases
• Time series databases such as OpenTSDB, Graphite, Prometheus or Grafana
• Key/Value stores
• Internetworking and BGP

Bonus Points

• Experience with continuous / rapid release engineering
• Strong tooling and automation development experience
• Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment
• Experience working with largescale production distributed systems
• A history of contributing to Open Source Software

Some Tools That We Use

• Nginx
• PostgreSQL
• Docker
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Consul
• Nomad
• Temporal
• Salt

Compensation Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000.

Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

Benefits

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• Ondemand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special? Were not just a highly ambitious, largescale technology company. Were a highly ambitious, largescale 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 Cloudflares enterprise customersat 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 privacycentric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use its the first consumerfocused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the dealwe never store client IP addresses. 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 youd like to be a part of? Wed love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other persons, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

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