Systems Engineer, MAPSActive

Cloudflare
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The opportunity

Cloudflare’s engineering teams build and maintain the systems and products that power our global platform. A global platform which is within approximately 50 milliseconds of about 95% of the Internet connected population, serving on average, over 46 million HTTP requests per second.

What you'll do

  • Washington DC

  • Experience as a software engineer or similar role working on latency and: efficiency sensitive server infrastructure.

  • Experience working with large-scale data pipelines and processing, including: use of distributed column-oriented data storage and processing such as ClickHouse, BigQuery/Dremel, etc.

  • Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals and routing basics

  • Successful track record of collaborating with many teams concurrently to: achieve goals that require alignment across a range of teams and orgs.

  • Track record of owning problems, goals, and outcomes: not (just) specific pieces of software.

What they're looking for

  • Track record of building long-term sustainable, maintainable systems.
  • Ability to dive deep into technical specifics of systems and codebases, while: always keeping the big picture in mind.
  • Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, C
  • Strong understanding of Linux kernel internals, especially any of: networking, scheduling, resource isolation, virtualization