Systems Engineer, Page Shield

About Cloudflare

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The Position

We are looking for a Systems engineer to join our team. You will work in the application security portfolio, and you will take a cross-functional role to help the team building and designing the Page Shield platform.

Our services are mainly written in Go and they run on Kubernetes. For service monitoring we use Prometheus and Grafana.

About The Team

Page Shield is a client side security product that aims to detect malicious behaviour and compromises that affect the browser environment directly, such as those that exploit vulnerabilities in third party JavaScript libraries. We use CSP (Content Security Policy) to leverage and report what JavaScript resources are loaded by the client. One of our biggest challenges is designing a system that can scale our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer traffic.

Requirements

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Prior commercial software development experience
• Programming experience in Go or a similar low level language
• A strong grasp of networking protocols and a very solid understanding of HTTP
• Proven experience in running high performance and enterprise scale services at pace and at scale whilst maintaining operational stability
• Experience of working with Product teams to balance technical agenda, operation of existing systems and new product development
• Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages
• A drive for continuous improvement when it comes to both operations and new product development
• Willingness, curiosity, and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and systems
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Bonus Points

These are things which the role is likely to require; we’re happy to help you learn on the job, but prior experience is beneficial

• Deep knowledge of web servers and web protocols
• Distributed systems
• Logging pipelines
• Production API design
• Web security issues and industry standards
• Browser security technologies

Our Hiring Process

1. Initial conversations
2. Team/panel interviews
3. Executive call(s)
4. Offer
5. Orientation

Meeting the Team

We've designed our hiring process so that you have the opportunity to meet a variety of Cloudflare team members that you will work directly with: your prospective manager, peers from the team, and key stakeholders.

These conversations will help us understand how you think, what you’re passionate about, as well as which skills and creative problem-solving abilities you bring to the table. We also want you to get to know us too — our interviewers will be ready to answer all of your questions!

Orange Cloud Interview

During the hiring process you’ll have an Orange Cloud Interview which will focus on the Cloudflare Capabilities and the behaviors that we value. The interviewer will ask you to share examples of how you do your work and make an impact, rather than assessing your role-specific skills, knowledge, or experience.

So, how do you prepare for this interview? Consider how you display these values in your everyday work, reflect on recent situations at work, whether you’ve learnt from these experiences, and if you’d do anything differently if they were to happen again.

Benefits

We want to empower and inspire our team members to do their best work every day - making sure they feel happy, healthy and fulfilled both inside and outside of the workplace.

• Competitive pay. We offer a competitive total rewards package, where every employee is an owner of our stock.
• Take-what-you-need vacation. We encourage employees to find a comfortable work-life balance by taking as many days off as they need while still being able to perform their jobs satisfactorily. (We really mean it!)
• Paid maternity & paternity leave. Our global parental leave policy allows up to sixteen paid weeks of bonding leave time for all qualifying new parents.
• Employee benefits. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pension plans in accordance with the market practice in our locations.
• Commuter program. We are flexible about where we work and value connecting at the office. Our commuter benefits program is in place to support team members' commute to work via public transportation without the extra cost burden.
• Wellbeing. Global offerings that provide mental health, childcare and family forming support to our employees across our offices.