Job Description

About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Available Locations: Bengaluru
About Us
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
What you'll do
You will be on a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building critical features in Cloudflare One's Zero Trust security platform. Throughout this product suite, we have offerings ranging from ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Architecture), to SWG (Secure Web Gateway), CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker), and many more that encompass a holistic platform to help secure some of the world's most important and forward-looking organizations. This team spearheads a variety of innovative new product features across the whole product portfolio, and directly collaborates with many engineering teams while doing so.
As an engineer on the team, you bring passion for building mission critical products and features, while thinking about the bigger picture of how your code will impact customers and advance their needs. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience in delivering scalable distributed systems. You'll be joining a team of bright, knowledge-seeking engineers who are truly missionaries in solving the security and networking challenges for our customers.
Technologies we use:

• Core backend and API services are written in Go, Rust, and Python.
• Our frontend is written in Typescript and React.
• We utilize Clickhouse, Postgres, and TimescaleDB as our data stores.
• Redis is our cache.
• Kafka plays a large role at Cloudflare and this team with message streaming.
• For service monitoring we use Prometheus and Grafana.
• For service logging we use Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience:

• 3+ years of professional experience building and managing reliable and performant software systems at scale, preferably with technologies like: Go, Rust, Python, Typescript, Postgres, Clickhouse, Kafka, etc.
• Passion for making the digital world a more secure place
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Willingness, curiosity, and enthusiasm to learn new programming languages, technologies and systems
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Caring and empathy are coveted traits here!

Bonus

• Frontend programming experience in Typescript/Javascript
• Previous experience working on security products

What Makes Cloudflare Special

We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers--at no cost.
: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
: We released to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you'd like to be a part of
We'd love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
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