Join the Testing at Scale team to develop and maintain systems for automated testing, ensuring reliable and efficient testing processes across Cloudflare's engineering teams.
Available Locations: Austin, TX
About the Department
Cloudflare's engineering teams build and maintain the systems and products that power our global platform. A global platform which is within approximately 50 milliseconds of about 95% of the Internet connected population, serving on average, over 46 million HTTP requests per second.
About the Team
Cloudflare engineering delivers code to production at a tremendous pace, and depends on automated testing to do so without incidents. The Testing at Scale team builds and runs tooling for other engineering teams, to allow them to write tests that verify the interactions between systems and products in production at huge scale.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for highly motivated software engineers to join our Testing at Scale Organization. You'll have a strong programming background with a deep understanding and experience developing and maintaining distributed systems. You'll need to be able to communicate effectively with engineers across the company to understand the behaviours of our systems and products in order to deliver tooling to meet their testing needs. You will also work closely with product managers to support our public facing synthetic testing and load testing products for enterprise customers.
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience
Nice to have skills
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
Financial Benefits
Time Off
About the Department
Cloudflare's engineering teams build and maintain the systems and products that power our global platform. A global platform which is within approximately 50 milliseconds of about 95% of the Internet connected population, serving on average, over 46 million HTTP requests per second.
About the Team
Cloudflare engineering delivers code to production at a tremendous pace, and depends on automated testing to do so without incidents. The Testing at Scale team builds and runs tooling for other engineering teams, to allow them to write tests that verify the interactions between systems and products in production at huge scale.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for highly motivated software engineers to join our Testing at Scale Organization. You'll have a strong programming background with a deep understanding and experience developing and maintaining distributed systems. You'll need to be able to communicate effectively with engineers across the company to understand the behaviours of our systems and products in order to deliver tooling to meet their testing needs. You will also work closely with product managers to support our public facing synthetic testing and load testing products for enterprise customers.
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Proven track record as a software engineer or similar role.
- Programming experience with one of the following languages. Go or Rust.
- Experience designing, implementing and maintaining secure and highly-available distributed systems
- Ability to develop, document and execute test and SLO plans, test cases and test scripts to verify systems continue to operate as expected
- Create and maintain production testing infrastructure and availability reporting
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to understand how their systems function and interact with other Cloudflare systems
- Help drive continued improvements in the software development testing processes
- Be a good communicator, provide clear and concise feedback to engineering and product teams
- Experience with measuring uptime metrics like correctness, availability & latency SLOs/SLIs
Nice to have skills
- Experience working with synthetic traffic & load testing tools
- Experience working with Clickhouse, GraphQL, Postgres
- Experience working with data pipelines with a focus on reliability and scale
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
Top Skills
Clickhouse
Go
GraphQL
Postgres
Rust
Cloudflare Austin, Texas, USA Office
405 Comal St, Austin, TX, United States, 78702
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