Join Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team to develop software solutions for network resilience and operational efficiency, focusing on distributed systems and automation.
Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal or London, United Kingdom
About the Department
Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team builds and runs the infrastructure that runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world's largest networks with data centers in 190 cities worldwide and a couple of large specialized data centers for internal needs.
About the role
Cloudflare operates a large global network spanning hundreds of cities (data centers). You will join a team of talented network automation engineers who are building software solutions to improve network resilience and reduce engineering operational toil.
You will work on a range of tools, infrastructure and services - new and existing - with an aim to elegantly and efficiently solve problems and deliver practical, maintainable and scalable solutions.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience
About the Department
Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team builds and runs the infrastructure that runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world's largest networks with data centers in 190 cities worldwide and a couple of large specialized data centers for internal needs.
About the role
Cloudflare operates a large global network spanning hundreds of cities (data centers). You will join a team of talented network automation engineers who are building software solutions to improve network resilience and reduce engineering operational toil.
You will work on a range of tools, infrastructure and services - new and existing - with an aim to elegantly and efficiently solve problems and deliver practical, maintainable and scalable solutions.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience
- BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of proven experience in hands-on server-side
- Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems
- Knowledge of programming languages like Python or Golang.
- Experience with MySQL, Postgres (or equivalent SQL language)
- Experience with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization
- Experience in systems Observability.
- Knowledge of Networking engineering, with competencies in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols and vendor equipment: Cisco, Juniper, etc.
- Experience managing internal and/or external customer requirements and expectations
- Proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions
Top Skills
Ci/Cd
Containers
Go
Linux
MySQL
Postgres
Python
Unix
Virtualization
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