Systems Engineer, MAPS

Cloudflare’s engineering teams build and maintain the systems and products that power our global platform. A global platform which is within approximately 50 milliseconds of about 95% of the Internet connected population, serving on average, over 46 million HTTP requests per second.

Cloudflare engineering delivers multiple products and features to production at a tremendous pace, and depends on real time load balancing and long term capacity planning to do so with high performance and efficiency. The MAPS team is responsible for highly granular and large-scale resource usage instrumentation and measurement of Cloudflare’s edge platform. The team builds and runs data pipelines, as well as systems and libraries for measuring and collecting the data, and collaborates closely across the range of teams that build and run services on Cloudflare’s global edge network to ensure consistent, complete, and correct attribution of all resource usage.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for highly motivated software engineers to join our MAPS team. You’ll have a strong programming background with a deep understanding and experience developing and maintaining distributed systems. You’ll need to be able to communicate effectively with engineers across the company to understand the behaviours of our systems and products in order to deliver tooling to meet their testing needs. You will also work closely with product managers to support our public facing synthetic testing and load testing products for enterprise customers.

• Experience as a software engineer or similar role working on latency and efficiency sensitive server infrastructure.
• Experience working with large-scale data pipelines and processing, including use of distributed column-oriented data storage and processing such as ClickHouse, BigQuery/Dremel, etc.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals and routing basics
• Successful track record of collaborating with many teams concurrently to achieve goals that require alignment across a range of teams and orgs.
• Track record of owning problems, goals, and outcomes - not (just) specific pieces of software.
• Track record of building long-term sustainable, maintainable systems.
• Ability to dive deep into technical specifics of systems and codebases, while always keeping the big picture in mind.
• Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, C

Bonus Points

• Strong understanding of Linux kernel internals, especially any of: networking, scheduling, resource isolation, virtualization
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving performance issues in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with large scale configuration/deployment management.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

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 that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers-at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we’ve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.