Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin, TX or Lisbon, Portugal
What you'll do
Cloudflare is looking for a backend engineer on our control plan product platform to help us build our customer APIs and our internal service APIs. This is a role for engineers that are familiar with standard backend backend architecture, and capable in database design and interaction. Our API platform is under constant load and scrutiny, so experience and commitment to easily understood and test code is also a key part of the role. Your ability to visualize the flow of data through a complex application is critical to your success, and to the team's. You will be working closely with the product team to understand and document the functional needs of their product requirements, developing new code to solve new problems, as well as maintaining existing code to squash bugs. Our tech stack includes services built using Go, Redis, Postgres, and Cloudflare products (e.g. Workers). We are looking for proficiency in RESTful API design, relational databases (SQL), and modern containerized deployment practices.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 3-5 years of professional experience building and managing software applications at large scale.
- Deep knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as Go, Rust, JavaScript, PHP with strong computer science fundamentals.
- Experience in designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
- Passion for Observability (experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana are a plus, but not required).
- Experience designing, implementing, and documenting customer-facing APIs are a huge plus.
- Solid knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL.
- Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying possible failures in a large-scale distributed system.
- Some understanding of the Cloudflare developers platform (Workers, Durable Objects, Queues, etc).
- Experience with containers (Docker & Kubernetes)
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- 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
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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