# Systems Engineering, Metrics and Alerting

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €66,000 - €91,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a Systems Engineer to join our internal Observability Team, focusing on metrics, alerting, error tracking, logging, tracing, and more. You will design, deliver, and operate software and a platform that enhances Cloudflare's Observability competency, solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services, work on highly distributed and scalable systems, participate in knowledge sharing and mentoring, and contribute to open-source projects.

Responsibilities:

- Design, deliver, and operate software and a platform that progresses Cloudflare's Observability competency

- Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services in our Metrics & Alerting pipeline

- Work on highly distributed and scalable systems

- Participate in the constant cycle of knowledge sharing and mentoring

- Participate in the global on-call rotation for the services your team owns

- Research and introduce cutting-edge technologies

- Contribute to open-source

Requirements:

- Software Engineering background and proficiency in high-level programming languages (e.g., Go)

- Proficiency in Data structures and databases like TSDBs, Columnar stores or related

- Proficiency in distributed Linux environments

- Proficiency in designing high-scale distributed systems

- Proficiency in Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos

- Experience working in a fast, high-growth environment

- Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment

- Exquisite written and verbal communication skills

- Familiarity with Internetworking, networking protocols Layer 2-7 of the OSI model and BGP

- Strong bias for action

Nice to Have:

- Experience with high-bandwidth transit Internetworking and routing

- Passion for code simplicity and performance

Compensation: For Portugal-based hires, the estimated annual salary is between €66,000 - €91,000. This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- TSDBs
- Columnar stores
- distributed Linux environments
- Prometheus
- Alertmanager
- Thanos
- Internetworking
- BGP

### Nice to have
- high-bandwidth transit Internetworking and routing
- code simplicity and performance

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