About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today 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 all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
While this job can be worked almost entirely remotely, hiring is focused on the following greater metro areas (~50 miles):
- Austin, TX
- Atlanta, GA
- Chicago, IL
- Denver, CO
- New York City
- Seattle, WA
- Washington, DC
- Mexico City, MX
- Toronto, CA
About the team
Cloudflare is redefining the way network functions are deployed at scale. Magic WAN and Magic Transit put the connectivity, scale, and performance of Cloudflare’s global network in front of customers’ network infrastructure, providing a single pane of glass for deploying and managing network functions like Secure Web Gateway, Next Generation Firewall, IDS/IPS, WAN optimization, and more. Magic Platform team is responsible for a set of products, features, and technologies that comprise Magic Transit and Magic WAN, working alongside other engineering teams in this space to deliver a cohesive customer experience. We are a team of engineers and product managers who obsess over quickly building products that solve real customer problems using innovative technologies and techniques which leverage Cloudflare’s unique architecture and global network footprint.
About the role
As a software engineer on the Magic Platform team, you will be designing and developing distributed edge services and monitoring. You will proactively monitor production services, respond to customer escalations and incidents.
We primarily use Go for our control plane services on our distributed edge network. Our dataplane is built with Linux netfilter, network namespaces, and nftables. We operate our systems with the help of tools like SaltStack, Prometheus, and Grafana.
We're looking for determined, curious, empathetic engineers to join our fast-growing team!
Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience
- Expertise with Linux networking internals
- Understanding of L2, L3 networking and routing protocols
- Userspace networking
- Complex nft and iptables rules
- Writing code for massively parallelized distributed systems
- Experience with various load balancing strategies -- and the knowledge to know which is best for different circumstances
- Systems-level programming experience, especially in Go
- BPF
- Strong ability to debug issues in complex systems
- Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process
- Able to work across teams and level common, sustainable solutions
- Creative, empathetic, open-minded, collaborative problem solver
- Focus on clarity in written and verbal communication
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. There are multiple levels open on the team, both mid & senior level.
Senior Level (4)
- For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $196,000 - $240,000
- For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $187,000 - $229,000.
- For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $206,000.
Mid Level (3)
- For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000
- For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000
- For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000
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
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: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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: We created 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.
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!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
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 both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
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