Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cloudflare is a leading technology company focused on building a better Internet, and they are seeking experienced Distributed Systems Engineers to join their DATA Organisation. This role involves designing and maintaining high-performance distributed systems that handle critical logs and analytics, providing customers with actionable insights into their online properties.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate a robust logging platform, ensuring reliable logging, and secure data transfer to a wide array of customer destinations and third-party integrations
- Develop and maintain high-performance data connectors and integrations for our log-shipping products, focusing on usability, scalability and data integrity
- Create and manage systems for handling comprehensive audit logs, ensuring they are delivered securely and adhere to strict compliance and performance standards
- Scale and optimise the data delivery pipeline to handle massive data volumes with low latency, identifying and removing bottlenecks in data processing and routing
- Work closely with Product and other engineering teams to define requirements for a new logging platform and integrations
- Maintain the operational health of our log delivery platform through comprehensive monitoring and participation in an on-call rotation (with flexibility for out-of-hours technical issue resolution)
- Collaborate on the architectural evolution of our data egress platform, researching and implementing new technologies to improve efficiency and reliability
Skills
- 3+ years of experience working in software development covering distributed systems and data pipelines
- Strong programming skills (Go is preferable), with a deep understanding of software development best practices for building resilient, high-throughput systems
- Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks, including Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong understanding of handling high-cardinality metrics at scale
- Strong knowledge of SQL, including experience with query optimisation
- A solid foundation in computer science, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and concurrency
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a willingness to debug, troubleshoot, and learn about complex problems at high scale
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with other teams across Cloudflare
- Experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink) is a strong plus
- Experience with various logging platforms or SIEMs (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic) and storage destinations (e.g., S3, R2, GCS) is a plus
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like SALT or Terraform is a plus
- Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, is a plus
Benefits
- Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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