Cloudflare

Systems Engineer, Metrics and Alerting

Cloudflare
hybrid mid full-time Hybrid
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First indexed 18 Apr 2026

Description

At Cloudflare, we're on a mission to help build a better Internet. We're looking for a Systems Engineer to join our Observability Team, responsible for the observability platform and stack to make our engineering teams productive. In this role, you will design, deliver, and operate software and a platform that progresses Cloudflare's Observability competency. You will solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services in our Metrics & Alerting pipeline and work on highly distributed and scalable systems.

As a member of our team, you will 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, and contribute to open-source.

We are a small team, well-funded, growing and focused on building an extraordinary company. This is a software engineering/systems engineering role and is a superb opportunity to be part of a high performing team to help to support Cloudflare’s mission and help build a better internet.

You may be a good fit for our team if you have a 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.

Bonus points if you have experience with high-bandwidth transit Internetworking and routing, passion for code simplicity and performance.

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