# Systems Engineer

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Lisbon
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to help build and manage tools that help engineers deploy and operate the services that make Cloudflare work.

## Responsibilities

- Design and build scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth.

- Design and build developer productivity tooling.

- Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues.

- Improve our development systems and practices.

- Improve the efficiency of managing resources such as CPU, bandwidth and storage.

- Work with application teams to understand their potential challenges and help them choose the best way to architect their systems.

- Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive.

- Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms.

## Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

- Demonstrable professional experience building and managing large-scale distributed systems or Linux production environments.

- Proficiency in at least one systems programming or scripting language (e.g., Go, Rust, C/C++, Python) with a track record of writing clean, maintainable code.

- Experience managing containerized workloads at scale using Kubernetes, Docker, or similar orchestration platforms.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies for infrastructure.

- Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing.

- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a methodical approach to diagnosing complex system-level failures.

## Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.

## Skills

### Required
- systems engineering
- scalable systems
- developer productivity tooling
- security threats
- resource contention issues
- CI/CD pipelines
- automated testing strategies
- source control

### Nice to have
- configuration management
- infrastructure-as-code tools
- Linux/Unix operating system internals
- core networking protocols
- open-source systems software projects

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