Senior Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE), Edge

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.

Responsibilities

• Build tools to constantly improve service availability, performance, and operational velocity.
• Nurture a passion for an 'automate everything' approach that makes systems failure resistant and ready to scale.
• Focus on the immediate state and functionality of the Cloudflare platform around the world, leveraging an array of monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics tools.
• Develop and enhance the Cloudflare platform and its capabilities.
• Work with developers and operators to own a wide portfolio of applications and services, running a tight feedback loop of developer and operator patterns.

Requirements

• Aptitude for identifying problems, owning them, and working with others to solve them.
• Linux systems experience.
• 3 years of experience in an SRE role or a role with similar functions.
• Software development skills in some programming language such as Go or Python.
• Understanding of distributed software systems and large-scale system design trade-offs.
• Intermediate experience with common network protocols like DNS and HTTP.
• Understanding of routing protocols and concepts such as BGP and IP anycast.

Nice to Have

• Experience with the Linux kernel and Linux software packaging.
• Performance analysis and debugging.
• Configuration management systems such as Saltstack, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
• 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.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to work on a high-growth network.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.

Company Culture

Cloudflare is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and places great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.