Join a talented team as a Systems Reliability Engineer to enhance the Cloudflare platform's availability and performance using automation and monitoring tools.
Available Locations: Austin TX and San Francisco CA, Seattle WA and Denver CO
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 reliability-focused 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 high-performing team and scale our high-growth network as Cloudflare's 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
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
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 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 reliability-focused 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 high-performing team and scale our high-growth network as Cloudflare's 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 large scale system design tradeoffs
- Intermediate experience of common network protocols like DNS and HTTP
- 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
- Experience with continuous / rapid release engineering
- Strong tooling and automation development experience
- Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment
- Experience working with large scale production distributed systems
- A history of contributing to Open Source Software
- 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
- For New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $133,000 - $163,000
- For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of $115,000 - $141,000
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
Top Skills
Ansible
Apache Airflow
Chef
Consul
Docker
Go
Grafana
Linux
Nginx
Nomad
Postgres
Prometheus
Puppet
Python
Rust
Saltstack
SQL
Temporal
Cloudflare Austin, Texas, USA Office
405 Comal St, Austin, TX, United States, 78702
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