Senior Software Engineer - Load Balancing

Job Summary

We are looking for a talented Systems Engineer to join the Load Balancing team at Cloudflare. You will work on a range of microservices written mainly in Go, and collaborate with internal teams to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the software systems that comprise Cloudflare's Load Balancing product.
• Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems to writing code, automated tests, and monitoring production deployments.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.
• Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Mentor team members and work with support teams to ensure customer delight and bring out the best in everyone.
• Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health.
• Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Go, Rust, and Typescript, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.

Requirements

• First and foremost curiosity and critical thinking
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company
• Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language
• Experience building and operating distributed systems
• Experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL and Clickhouse)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership