Join Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team to improve network resilience using automation and software solutions on a large global network.
Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal
About the Department
Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team builds and runs the infrastructure that runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world's largest networks with data centers in 190 cities worldwide and a couple of large specialized data centers for internal needs.
About the Position
Cloudflare operates a large global network spanning hundreds of cities (data centers). You will join a team of talented network automation engineers who are building software solutions to improve network resilience and reduce engineering operational toil.
You will work on a range of tools, infrastructure and services - new and existing - with an aim to elegantly and efficiently solve problems and deliver practical, maintainable and scalable solutions.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience
Bonus Points but not required:
About the Department
Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team builds and runs the infrastructure that runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world's largest networks with data centers in 190 cities worldwide and a couple of large specialized data centers for internal needs.
About the Position
Cloudflare operates a large global network spanning hundreds of cities (data centers). You will join a team of talented network automation engineers who are building software solutions to improve network resilience and reduce engineering operational toil.
You will work on a range of tools, infrastructure and services - new and existing - with an aim to elegantly and efficiently solve problems and deliver practical, maintainable and scalable solutions.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience
- BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Solid foundation on configuration management frameworks: Ansible, Chef, Saltstack.
- Knowledge of programming languages like Python or Golang.
- Highly Proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions
- Experience with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization, web servers, and databases
- Experience in systems Observability
Bonus Points but not required:
- Professional experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
- Knowledge of Networking engineering, with competencies in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols and vendor equipment: Cisco, Juniper, etc.
- Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems
- Experience managing internal and/or external customer requirements and expectations
- Knowledge of Javascript (React and other frontend frameworks)
Top Skills
Ansible
Chef
Ci/Cd
Databases
Go
JavaScript
Python
Saltstack
Unix/Linux
Virtualization
Web Servers
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