Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

October 2

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Cloudflare

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nginx • lua • go • web performance • web security

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2009

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

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💰 $150M Series E on 2019-03

Description

• About Us: Cloudflare helps build a better Internet for millions of websites. • We protect and accelerate Internet applications without changing a line of code. • Engineers develop software powering millions of business properties around the world. • Seeking curious and empathetic engineers to tackle challenges and enhance skills. • Role location: London, Remote UK, Lisbon, Remote Portugal. • Examples of software systems at Cloudflare:<li>TLS/HTTP proxy, malicious traffic filtering, content optimization, etc. • Focus on building robust, secure, and high-performance distributed systems. • Join a mission to make the Internet better, safer, and more powerful daily.

Requirements

• Understanding at the protocol level, including the differences between what the specs say, and what actually happens on the Internet. • Confidence to work in multiple programming languages - bonus points for Go and/or Rust experience. • Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases. • Strong systems level programming skills. • Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems. • Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git). • Good Unix knowledge, patches to Operating Systems a huge plus for some roles. • Understanding of security issues and responsibilities. • Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems. • Fluent in analyses of data sets such as logs. • Designing and building APIs. • Great oral and written communications skills. • Desire to learn and improve. • Willing and eager to share knowledge, and mentor.