About Cloudflare

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. The company 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. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal or London, United Kingdom

About The Department

Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team builds and runs the infrastructure that supports our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: product development and operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our software to meet a growing customer base. The operations team manages one of the world’s largest networks with data centers in 190 cities worldwide and several large 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 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 the aim of elegantly and efficiently solving problems and delivering practical, maintainable and scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Join a team of network automation engineers building software solutions to improve network resilience and reduce engineering operational toil.
• Work on a range of tools, infrastructure and services—new and existing—to solve problems and deliver practical, maintainable and scalable solutions.

Required / 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

Bonus Points but not required

• Knowledge of Networking engineering, with competencies in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols and vendor equipment (e.g., Cisco, Juniper)
• Experience managing internal and/or external customer requirements and expectations
• Proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions

What Makes Cloudflare Special

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a company with a soul, committed to protecting a free and open Internet. Projects include:

• Project Galileo: Since 2014, we’ve equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks, at no cost.
• Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have protection and reliability, serving 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
• 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to provide a faster, more secure, privacy-centric public DNS resolver. We do not store client IP addresses and will continue to adhere to our privacy commitments.

Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. 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 hr@cloudflare.com or mail to 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107.

These terms may be subject to export control laws. Any offer of employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.