Job Location: US Remote
What you'll do
Cloudflare is committed to using Health Mediated Deployment (HMD) to make production changes quickly and safely to bring our customers the availability and features that matter the most across our 1000+ data centers worldwide. As the HMD architect you will collaborate with our internal customers and the Deploy at Scale and Observability engineering teams to refine and expand our architecture to support this vision and to scale along with the business. Along the way you will have the opportunity to write code to bring this design to fruition as well as to mentor high-potential engineers on their distributed system journey.
You will be working alongside engineers who have presented at Config Management Camp 2024, Monitorama, OSMC, Kubecon and Promcon. Together you will deliver on the key Health Mediated Deployment projects that are being tracked through senior leadership of Cloudflare up to the founders.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Minimum 15 years of experience working with distributed systems.
- Experience designing, building and managing high volume software applications.
- Expert in at least one modern strongly-typed programming language
- Experience debugging, measuring, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale distributed system.
- Excellent collaboration skills
- Proven ability to convey ideas effectively through verbal and written communication
- Ability to translate business needs into requirements, design documents and technical solutions
- Knowledge of API design standards, patterns and best practices
- Proven ability to use data to drive business outcomes
- Proven experience in developing architects and lead engineers
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
Bonus Points
- Experience with telemetry pipelines (Metrics/Traces) and a very good understanding of modern observability platforms
- Direct experience designing, building and managing high volume deployment systems.