Description
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. We protect and accelerate any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Our network is used by millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.
Role Summary
The Egress team was formed to own a very important aspect of Cloudflare's network-as-a-service: Egress connectivity for our vast portfolio of products. As a member of the Egress team, you will be a key technical contributor to a cutting-edge network software infrastructure used by a growing number of Cloudflare products to connect to any destination from Cloudflare's network.
Responsibilities
- Make daily progress on assigned engineering tasks, such as designing systems, writing specs, writing and pushing code via git, writing release plans for complex changes, rolling out production releases and working with other teams to coordinate system actions
- Participate in daily and ad-hoc team meetings to share progress and collaborate
- Participate in the team’s on-call schedule to ensure uptime of our production systems
- Investigating customer issues that are escalated to the Egress team for triage and resolution
- Responding to questions from other teams in the Egress team’s internal, public chat room
- Using AI-powered tools and systems as part of your daily workflow to analyze and extend codebases, introspect production systems and datasets, and accelerate problem-solving
Requirements
- Programming experience in Go or Rust and a desire to improve your skills in both
- A solid grasp of networking protocols in Layers 3 and 4 of the OSI Model
- Knowledge of HTTP, TLS, and CDN networks
- Experience in implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems
- Strong ability to debug issues in complex systems
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience/interest in HTTP networking and VPN technologies
- Experience/interest in network performance monitoring and tuning
- Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your engineering workflow
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.