Software Engineer, CDN Configuration Group

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.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: London

About Engineering at Cloudflare

Cloudflare's Engineering team is responsible for the software platform that serves tens of millions of HTTP requests per second on average. We also build and run the tools that empower our colleagues to rapidly deliver products to market, as well as monitor and deploy software updates across the globe to over 200+ data centers. You'll experience the full breadth of technologies needed to run one of the world's largest networks serving the world's largest customers such as Shopify and VISA.

About The Team

The CDN Configuration team oversees the end-to-end configuration ecosystem across our edge platform. Our core mission is delivering a coherent, safe, highly performant, and resilient experience that empowers customers to modify their traffic routing with absolute confidence. We enable users to build and tailor their own virtual network by rapidly generating settings and deploying updates globally without friction. While core teams engineer individual edge components, our group architecturally unifies these capabilities, enabling customers to seamlessly orchestrate their entire pipeline.

What you'll do

Collaborating with skilled software professionals, you will deliver robust mechanisms that grant users total governance and safety across their network settings. Your focus involves architecting services that let users seamlessly prototype, execute, evaluate, and discard tailored traffic rules, ensuring optimal alignment with their operational requirements. This scope extends far beyond a solitary codebase; you will directly interface with distributed edge platforms, partnering with cross-functional groups to streamline and fortify our global infrastructure.

In this role, you will stand at the intersection of core application deployment and infrastructure operations, driving technical alignment alongside engineering peers across the organization.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Solid competencies in practical computer science, applying the right algorithms, data structures, concurrency control systems to software design, and building large, distributed systems
• Experience operating production systems safely - deployment, rollout, rollback, and observability
• Driving communication and consensus across teams
• A drive for continuous improvement when it comes to both operations and new product development

Bonus Points

These are things which the role is likely to require; we're happy to help you learn on the job, but prior experience is beneficial

• Experience of languages: Rust, Go
• Knowledge of web servers and web protocols
• Distributed systems, and distributed configuration or state-distribution systems
• Experience with safe deployment: progressive rollout, versioning/snapshots, CI/CD
• Web security issues and industry standards

Most importantly, we are looking for people who want to learn something new. We maintain the largest web server in the world, and we face unique challenges. You will be collaborating and designing innovative solutions to improve the life of millions of people around the globe, everywhere they are, whatever their needs are.

Join and help us build a better Internet!

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.

Project Galileo: 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.

Athenian Project: 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.

1.1.1.1: We released1.1.1.1 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 privacy commitment 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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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.

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