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Cloudflare · 1 month ago

Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE), Edge

Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet, operating one of the world’s largest networks. They are seeking a Systems Reliability Engineer to build and operate their Edge platform, focusing on automation, scalability, and operational excellence.

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Responsibilities

Build and operate our Edge platform running in more than 320 cities in over 120 countries
Support our services in a 'follow the sun' model with offices in East Asia, Europe and North America
Build tools to constantly improve service availability, performance, and operational velocity
Nurture a passion for an 'automate everything' approach that makes systems failure resistant and ready to scale
Focus on the immediate state and functionality of the Cloudflare platform around the world, leveraging an array of monitoring, alerting and diagnostics tools
Develop and enhance the Cloudflare platform and its capabilities
Own a wide portfolio of applications and services, running a tight feedback loop of developer and operator patterns

Qualification

Linux systems experienceSoftware development skillsNetworkingDistributed software systemsCommon network protocolsRouting protocols knowledgePerformance analysisConfiguration managementLoad balancingSQL databasesTime series databasesKey/Value storesContinuous release engineeringToolingAutomationLarge scale systemsOpen Source contributionsNginxPostgreSQLDockerPrometheusGrafanaConsulNomadSalt

Required

Aptitude for identifying problems, owning them and working with others to solve them
Linux systems experience
3 years experience in an SRE role or a role with similar functions
Software development skills in some programming language such as Go or Python
Understanding of distributed software systems and large scale system design tradeoffs
Intermediate experience of common network protocols like DNS and HTTP
Understanding of routing protocols and concepts such as BGP and IP anycast

Preferred

Experience with the Linux kernel and Linux software packaging
Performance analysis and debugging
Configuration management systems such as Saltstack, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Squid or Apache
SQL databases
Time series databases such as OpenTSDB, Graphite, Prometheus or Grafana
Key/Value stores
Experience with continuous / rapid release engineering
Strong tooling and automation development experience
Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment
Experience working with large scale production distributed systems
A history of contributing to Open Source Software

Company

Cloudflare

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Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online.

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$2.08B
Key Investors
Franklin TempletonFidelityUnion Square Ventures
2025-06-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2019-09-12IPO
2019-03-12Series E· $150M

Leadership Team

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Matthew Prince
CEO & Co-Founder
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Lee Holloway
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer
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