Cloudflare
Position Title:
Systems Engineer, Gateway About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other 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 have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request, helping them see improved performance and reduced 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 hire the best people based on potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. We value curiosity, empathy, and commitment to learning. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Available locations: Austin, Lisbon, London.
Available Locations:
Austin, Lisbon, London
Hiring focus : This role is focused on candidates residing within the greater Austin, TX; London, UK; or Lisbon, Portugal metro areas. It is a hybrid role with an expectation of 2 days per week in the office.
Role level : We’re hiring Software Engineers at all levels. This is a single pipeline position.
About the department Cloudflare’s Engineering Team builds and runs the software that handles trillions of requests per month. Product development covers new features, functionality, and scaling our software to meet a massively growing customer base. The Cloudflare Zero Trust group within Engineering ensures people and teams can access tools safely and reliably without malware and other online threats.
What you’ll do In this role you’ll help us build Gateway and DNS Filtering products—ambitious offerings aimed at being the most secure and performant method for an organization’s devices to connect to the Internet. As an engineer on the Gateway teams, you will focus on our high-performance global edge network data plane services and contribute to the control plane APIs that configure edge services. You will join a global team of bright, hard-working engineers who care about their craft.
Examples of systems the team is building:
A forward-proxy service running on every machine of Cloudflare’s extensive edge network, inspecting, filtering, and blocking device requests based on an organization’s configured policy.
A DNS resolver on our edge that leverages a WireFilter-based filtering rules engine.
Microservices that allow organizations to configure, manage, and observe their devices and their traffic.
Technologies we use:
Gateway core edge services are written in Rust and deployed globally to 310+ data centers.
REST API written in Go, runs on Kubernetes, and uses Postgres as a data store.
Frontend is written in TypeScript and React.
Service monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
Service logging with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
Product analytics with ClickHouse and BigQuery.
Because you’ll be solving problems of massive scale and shaping the future of the Internet, you are growth-oriented and open to learning in a fast-paced environment.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience Ideal candidates are curious, hard-working, and passionate. A rough list of the skills we’d love to see:
Programming experience in Rust, C++, or similar low-level languages
Programming experience in Go and/or TypeScript is a plus, but not required
Strong grasp of networking protocols in Layers 3-7 of the OSI model
Solid understanding of HTTP protocols including HTTP/2; HTTP/3 experience is a bonus
Basic understanding of software security and encryption
Experience designing and implementing secure, highly-available distributed systems
Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new programming languages, technologies, and systems
Strong interpersonal and communication skills; caring and empathy are valued
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside standard hours to address technical issues as needed.
Compensation and benefits Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For Austin-based hires: estimated annual salary of $115,000–$187,000.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a comprehensive benefits package. Benefits vary by location and may include health, mental health support, retirement plans, time off, and other programs described below.
US Health & Welfare Benefits:
Medical/Rx, Dental, Vision; Flexible Spending Accounts; Commuter Spending Accounts; Fertility & Family Forming Benefits; On-demand mental health support and EAP; Global Travel Medical Insurance.
US Financial Benefits:
Short and Long-Term Disability, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) with employee stock participation.
Portugal Health & Welfare Benefits:
Health Insurance (includes Dental/Vision), Meal Pass, Child benefits, Commuter Benefits.
Portugal Financial Benefits:
Life & Accident Insurance, ESPP.
Time Off:
Flexible PTO for vacation and sick leave; parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We are a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul, focused on protecting the free and open Internet. Projects include:
Project Galileo : Providing tools to journalists and civil society organizations to defend against censorship.
Athenian Project : Protecting local government websites to ensure access to election information.
1.1.1.1 : Public DNS resolver service with a privacy commitment to not store client IP addresses.
Sound like something you’d like to be part of? We’d love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws. Offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, disability, or other protected status. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require an accommodation to apply, please contact us at hr@cloudflare.com or 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107.
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Systems Engineer, Gateway About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other 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 have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request, helping them see improved performance and reduced 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 hire the best people based on potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. We value curiosity, empathy, and commitment to learning. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Available locations: Austin, Lisbon, London.
Available Locations:
Austin, Lisbon, London
Hiring focus : This role is focused on candidates residing within the greater Austin, TX; London, UK; or Lisbon, Portugal metro areas. It is a hybrid role with an expectation of 2 days per week in the office.
Role level : We’re hiring Software Engineers at all levels. This is a single pipeline position.
About the department Cloudflare’s Engineering Team builds and runs the software that handles trillions of requests per month. Product development covers new features, functionality, and scaling our software to meet a massively growing customer base. The Cloudflare Zero Trust group within Engineering ensures people and teams can access tools safely and reliably without malware and other online threats.
What you’ll do In this role you’ll help us build Gateway and DNS Filtering products—ambitious offerings aimed at being the most secure and performant method for an organization’s devices to connect to the Internet. As an engineer on the Gateway teams, you will focus on our high-performance global edge network data plane services and contribute to the control plane APIs that configure edge services. You will join a global team of bright, hard-working engineers who care about their craft.
Examples of systems the team is building:
A forward-proxy service running on every machine of Cloudflare’s extensive edge network, inspecting, filtering, and blocking device requests based on an organization’s configured policy.
A DNS resolver on our edge that leverages a WireFilter-based filtering rules engine.
Microservices that allow organizations to configure, manage, and observe their devices and their traffic.
Technologies we use:
Gateway core edge services are written in Rust and deployed globally to 310+ data centers.
REST API written in Go, runs on Kubernetes, and uses Postgres as a data store.
Frontend is written in TypeScript and React.
Service monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
Service logging with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
Product analytics with ClickHouse and BigQuery.
Because you’ll be solving problems of massive scale and shaping the future of the Internet, you are growth-oriented and open to learning in a fast-paced environment.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience Ideal candidates are curious, hard-working, and passionate. A rough list of the skills we’d love to see:
Programming experience in Rust, C++, or similar low-level languages
Programming experience in Go and/or TypeScript is a plus, but not required
Strong grasp of networking protocols in Layers 3-7 of the OSI model
Solid understanding of HTTP protocols including HTTP/2; HTTP/3 experience is a bonus
Basic understanding of software security and encryption
Experience designing and implementing secure, highly-available distributed systems
Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new programming languages, technologies, and systems
Strong interpersonal and communication skills; caring and empathy are valued
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside standard hours to address technical issues as needed.
Compensation and benefits Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For Austin-based hires: estimated annual salary of $115,000–$187,000.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a comprehensive benefits package. Benefits vary by location and may include health, mental health support, retirement plans, time off, and other programs described below.
US Health & Welfare Benefits:
Medical/Rx, Dental, Vision; Flexible Spending Accounts; Commuter Spending Accounts; Fertility & Family Forming Benefits; On-demand mental health support and EAP; Global Travel Medical Insurance.
US Financial Benefits:
Short and Long-Term Disability, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) with employee stock participation.
Portugal Health & Welfare Benefits:
Health Insurance (includes Dental/Vision), Meal Pass, Child benefits, Commuter Benefits.
Portugal Financial Benefits:
Life & Accident Insurance, ESPP.
Time Off:
Flexible PTO for vacation and sick leave; parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We are a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul, focused on protecting the free and open Internet. Projects include:
Project Galileo : Providing tools to journalists and civil society organizations to defend against censorship.
Athenian Project : Protecting local government websites to ensure access to election information.
1.1.1.1 : Public DNS resolver service with a privacy commitment to not store client IP addresses.
Sound like something you’d like to be part of? We’d love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws. Offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, disability, or other protected status. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require an accommodation to apply, please contact us at hr@cloudflare.com or 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107.
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