Software Engineer - Database Platform

Available Locations: Austin, TX and Washington DC
About the departmentThe Database Platform Team, a vital part of Cloudflare's Infrastructure Engineering organization, is dedicated to building and operating databases at scale. Our mission is to empower internal engineering teams, enabling them to deliver products quickly and reliably through a robust, automated, and scalable data infrastructure.
We achieve this by automating database infrastructure, strengthening resiliency, and allowing applications to scale effortlessly. This effectively removes the operational complexities of database management, letting product teams concentrate on innovation.
As the Database Platform Team enters an exciting period of growth and expansion, this role offers a key opportunity to develop new features, integrate with database tooling, and advance automation across our platform. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of our database platform
What you'll do
The ideal candidate will collaborate with database engineers, software developers, and infrastructure teams to evolve the database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies. A key part of your role will be to enhance database infrastructure and improve its reliability, automation, and tooling.
If you are passionate about Databases, automation, and tooling, we'd love to hear from you!
Role Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain critical database platform tools with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Orchestrate and containerize database platform components by creating Docker images for deployment in Kubernetes environments.
• Automate build, test, and deployment workflows by developing CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and implement programmatic APIs and interfaces for the database platform, facilitating integration with other systems and tools.
• Drive the adoption of self-service capabilities for database lifecycle management, empowering teams to perform routine tasks independently.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Formal computer science background (BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent)
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages for building tools and APIs.
• Proficiency in Docker for containerization, with practical experience in deploying workloads on Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Gitlab CI, ArgoCD or GitHub actions .
• Direct experience in shipping, supporting, and managing automation tools, distributed systems while catering to various cross-functional teams.
• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
• Knowledge of a traditional relational database system, preferably PostgreSQL.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with configuration management software like SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform.
• Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
• Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
• Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.

Experience with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
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 $154,000 - $188,000.

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