Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• 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

What the job involves

• We are looking for talented Systems Reliability Engineers to build and operate our Edge platform running in more than 320 cities in over 120 countries
• Our SREs come from diverse technical backgrounds and have built up their knowledge working in different environments, but common factors across all of our reliability-focused engineers include a passion for automation, scalability, and operational excellence
• We support our services in a “follow the sun” model with offices in East Asia, Europe and North America
• This is a superb opportunity to join a high-performing team and scale our high-growth network as Cloudflare’s business grows
• We live at the boundary between systems, network, and software, and love improving the glue that holds them together
• Working with us, you will build tools to constantly improve service availability, performance, and operational velocity
• You will nurture a passion for an “automate everything” approach that makes systems failure resistant and ready to scale
• SREs focus on the immediate state and functionality of the Cloudflare platform around the world, leveraging an array of monitoring, alerting and diagnostics tools while developing and enhancing the Cloudflare platform and its capabilities
• We own a wide portfolio of applications and services, running a tight feedback loop of developer and operator patterns
• The ideal SRE candidate has a passionate curiosity about how the Internet fundamentally works and has a strong knowledge of networking, Linux and TLS along with coding ability in Go or Python
• This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed
• ---Some tools that we use---
• Nginx, PostgreSQL, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Consul, Nomad and Salt

Benefits

• Competitive pay: We offer a competitive total rewards package, where every employee is an owner of our stock.
• Take-what-you-need vacation: We encourage employees to find a comfortable work-life balance by taking as many days off as they need while still being able to perform their jobs satisfactorily. (We really mean it!)
• Paid maternity & paternity leave: Our global parental leave policy allows up to sixteen paid weeks of bonding leave time for all qualifying new parents.
• Employee benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pension plans in accordance with the market practice in our locations.
• Commuter program: We are flexible about where we work and value connecting at the office. Our commuter benefits program is in place to support team members' commute to work via public transportation without the extra cost burden.
• Wellbeing: Global offerings that provide mental health, childcare and family forming support to our employees across our offices.