Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin OR Remote - US
About the Addressing team
Cloudflare operates one of the largest and most interconnected anycast networks on the Internet. To make that happen, a complex orchestra of IP address configuration and distributed systems need to be in harmony to deliver packets from users, through our edge network and then onwards to our customers origin servers or networks.
On the Addressing team, you will architect, program, and maintain core software services that enable large corporate networks to be protected by Cloudflare. Recent projects range from IP conservation efforts, supporting use cases for Policy driven IP address assignment, designing traffic engineering tools that improve the quality of service for billions of users around the world, and building customer APIs to control BGP dynamically.
The Addressing team works closely with our system reliability engineers, network engineers and product engineering teams to build automated systems that span the entire Cloudflare stack.
Your Responsibilities
We are looking for talented Software Engineers to join our small but growing team. You will work on a range of microservices written mainly in Go. You’ll be designing and developing new APIs and data models to manage our rapidly expanding addressing needs.
The ever growing suite of Cloudflare products and services means our addressing tools are always evolving. You will have the opportunity to take on very impactful projects critical for Cloudflare. You will spend time learning the inner workings of our edge routers, servers, DNS and IP provisioning pipelines. You will work closely with other engineers to understand their needs and create scalable platforms to be used across the company.
Some of the technologies we use include Go, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kafka, Lua, Clickhouse, SaltStack, Prometheus and the usual Unix/Linux tools and workflows. We strive to build reliable, fault-tolerant systems that can operate at Cloudflare’s scale.
About you
- You are naturally curious and willing to take a step to learn something you don’t have experience in
- You lead. We are a growing team and you will have a huge role shaping our products, tools and system designs from the ground up
- You have experience writing high-quality code in one or more system programming languages (Go, Python, C/C++)
- You have experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments
- You have a solid understanding of TCP/IP and basic networking in general
- You have a basic understanding of the HTTP/S/TLS stack
- You have a working knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
- You have experience building and operating distributed systems
- You have excellent debugging skills and attention to detail when breaking down problems
Bonus Points
- Experience working with Go
- Experience working with Rust
- Familiarity with UI design, workflows and implementation
- Familiarity with anycast or multi-site unicast networks
- Knowledge of DNS and DNS based traffic management techniques (e.g geo DNS)
- Familiarity working with IP Address Management System
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $115,000 - $141,000
- For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $133,000 - $163,000
- For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $140,000 - $172,000
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
