Senior Infrastructure Tooling Software Engineer

About the department
Cloudflare's Resiliency Engineering Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month. Resiliency Engineering ensures that all new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing customer base.
The Infrastructure Tooling Team within Resiliency Engineering is responsible for defining, building and supporting tools and services used across Cloudflare to manage its infrastructure. These tools enable both Cloudflare's daily operation and its relentless growth.
What you'll do
In this role you'll have an opportunity to work on our internal infrastructure control plane application "Zinc". Zinc is a Rust application that is used to manage our global fleet of servers and network devices. Zinc answers every device's question: what am I, what do I do? The service is high performance, highly available, and is special in that it also shares few dependencies with most other Cloudflare services, since most systems have a dependency on Zinc.
Your work on Zinc will directly affect the efficiency and resilience of Cloudflare's vast global server and network infrastructure. If you are passionate about optimizing and scaling globally distributed systems, this may be the team for you!
Read more about Zinc in the Cloudflare blog: Redefining Fleet Management at Cloudflare.
Because you'll be solving problems of great significance, and shaping the future of the Internet, you are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone in a fast-paced environment.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
The ideal candidate for this position is curious, hard-working, and loves owning and improving critical infrastructure services.
We're interested in candidates who bring:

• Programming experience in Rust, Go, Python or similar languages. (If you're not a Rust expert, you are willing to become one.)
• Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
• Experience with Distributed Systems at scale is a plus
• Collaborates well with smart, driven, and highly technical users
• Designing and building APIs. Also welcome: CLI, React apps, SDK, system integrations like wiki and chat, and more.
• Great oral and written communications skills
• Passion for solving challenging problems and learning complex systems
• CS degree or equivalent experience

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $187,000 - $229,000

Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
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

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