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Senior Systems Engineer

Cloudflare Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

Job Description

As a Senior Systems Engineer on the Global Resource Management team at Cloudflare, you'll tackle complex system architecture problems. Your mission will be to create organised, efficient, and well-managed applications that enable features across Cloudflare's resources.

Responsibilities

  • Solve Deep, Foundational Problems: Dive into complex, cross-cutting engineering challenges that benefit all Cloudflare products by creating organized, efficient, and well-managed applications.
  • Architect for Organization and Clarity: Design and make core architectural decisions focused on reducing fanout and simplifying system dependencies.
  • Build Scalable Systems: Propose architectures, write detailed specifications, and implement high-quality, maintainable code to build scalable and highly available systems.
  • Drive Code Quality: Participate in thorough code reviews, provide constructive feedback on technical specifications and designs, and ensure all implementations adhere to best practices for reliability and security.

Requirements

  • Professional Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in software development, building and operating mission-critical, high-scale distributed systems.
  • Programming Languages: Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or a similar modern systems language.
  • Systems Design: Proven experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available services at cloud-scale.
  • Architectural Thinking: Understanding of concepts related to organization, dependency management, and resource orchestration in a large, multi-tenant environment.
  • Collaboration: Experience participating in a code review process and contributing thoughtful feedback to design specifications.

Bonus Skills

  • Familiarity with Cloudflare's core technologies, such as edge computing or global networking.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and related technologies.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family, including health and welfare benefits, financial benefits, and time off.

Skills

Required

  • Go
  • Golang
  • systems design
  • scalable systems
  • architectural thinking
  • collaboration

Nice to have

  • Cloudflare's core technologies
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

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