Senior Software Engineer - Load Balancing

Available Locations: Austin Texas

About Engineering at Cloudflare

Cloudflare’s Engineers build and operate the software that helps power 25+ million Internet properties and millions of businesses around the world. Across our engineering organizations, we have opportunities for high caliber, curious and empathetic people to take on big challenges and build some of the best skills in the industry. We’re looking for talented team members to help build high-growth products, help scale our expanding network, build tools to improve availability, performance, uptime, and response times, and make systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.

Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the Internet better, safer, and more powerful every day. As a Software Engineer at Cloudflare, you’ll work on the code that runs close to the end user, runs at a massive scale, and is deployed to 330+ cities around the world.

Role Summary

We are looking for a talented Systems Engineer to join the Load Balancing team. You will work on a range of microservices written mainly in Go. Technologies we use include Docker, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC, Kafka, Clickhouse and the usual Unix/Linux tools and workflows. We strive to build reliable, fault-tolerant systems that can operate at Cloudflare’s scale. You will join a team of bright, hard-working, and supportive engineers who are passionate about their craft, and you will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced but sane work environment.

You can learn more about our product and the work our engineers do on our blog:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-hardware-with-load-balancing-and-cloudflare-one/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/extending-local-traffic-management-load-balancing-to-layer-4-with-spectrum/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/load-balancing-monitor-groups-multi-service-health-checks-for-resilient/

Role Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the software systems that comprise Cloudflare’s Load Balancing product.
• Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems to writing code, automated tests, and monitoring production deployments.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.
• Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Mentor team members and work with support teams to ensure customer delight and bring out the best in everyone.
• Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health.
• Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Go, Rust, and Typescript, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.

Role Requirements

• First and foremost curiosity and critical thinking
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company
• Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language
• Experience building and operating distributed systems
• Experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
• Experience with databases (we use PostgreSQL and Clickhouse)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership.