Cloudflare
Control Plane Product: Senior Backend Engineer
Denver, CO | $134K - $223K
Qualifications
- Our API platform is under constant load and scrutiny, so experience and commitment to easily understood and test code is also a key part of the role
- We are looking for proficiency in RESTful API design, relational databases (SQL), and modern containerized deployment practices
- 5+ years of professional experience building and managing software applications at large scale
- Deep knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as Go, Rust, JavaScript, PHP with strong computer science fundamentals
- Experience in designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems
- Experience designing, implementing, and documenting customer-facing APIs are a huge plus
- Solid knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
- Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying possible failures in a large-scale distributed system
- Experience with containers (Docker & Kubernetes)
Responsibilities
- Cloudflare is looking for a backend engineer on our control plan product platform to help us build and maintain the codebase that powers both our customer APIs as well as internal service APIs
- Your ability to visualize the flow of data through a complex application is critical to your success, and to the team’s
- You will be working closely with the product team to understand and document the functional needs of their product requirements, developing new code to solve new problems, as well as maintaining existing code to squash bugs
- Our tech stack includes services built using Go, Redis, Postgres, and Cloudflare products (e.g
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Software, Information Technology, Technology, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Computer Software, Telecommunications, Internet, Information Technology & Services, Internet Services
- Public Company
- Founded: 2009
- San Francisco, California
- Company Specialties:
nginx, lua, go, web performance, web security, dns, network, noc, nocc, ddos, and CDN
Company information
Cloudflare, Inc (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, named the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company for two years running by the Wall Street Journal, and ranked among the world's 50 most innovative companies by Fast Company. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in San Jose, CA, Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, Boston, MA, Seattle, WA, Washington, DC, London, Paris, Lisbon, Munich, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, Brussels, and Singapore. Interested in joining our team? Please see current openings at https://www.cloudflare.com/careers. We can also be reached at https://www.cloudflare.com or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cloudflare.
