Software Engineer - Traffic Engineering

About Cloudflare

Help Build a Better Internet. At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

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: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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.
• Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
• Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
• 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

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The Position

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Traffic team. Our mission is to build software systems that improve the performance and reliability of Cloudflare's network. The scope of our work is significant and has a broad impact across our portfolio of products.

As a member of the Traffic team you will build and extend these systems. One such system is a control plane service that ingests a diverse set of data in order to load-balance customer traffic across our global network.

You will work closely with Network Engineering, Product Engineering, Network Strategy, and other teams to translate their requirements into new capabilities on our platform.

You will participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems, to writing code and automated tests, to planning, managing, and monitoring production software deployments. You will work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Go, Python, Hashicorp Serf, ClickHouse, Salt, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Kubernetes, NETCONF, and more.

Because you’ll be solving problems of massive scale and significance, and shaping the future of security and performance on the Internet, you are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone. You are comfortable in a fast-paced but sensible work environment. You value curiosity and empathy and lead with these values.

Requirements

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Systems-level programming experience in Go, Python, Rust, C, or C++
• 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 interpersonal and communication skills

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of TCP/IP and Internet routing
• Experience building tools and APIs
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with participating in an on-call rotation

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.