Systems Engineer – Database Platform at Cloudflare

Job Description

About Us

At Cloudflare, we’re on a mission to assist construct a greater Internet. Today the corporate runs one of many planet’s largest networks that powers tens of millions of internet sites and different Internet properties for purchasers starting from particular person bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 firms. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet software on-line with out including {hardware}, putting in software program, or altering a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have net visitors routed by way of its clever international community, which will get smarter with each request. As a end result, they see important enchancment in efficiency and a lower in spam and different assaults. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures listing and ranked among the many World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, we’re not on the lookout for individuals who watch for a elegant roadmap; we’re on the lookout for the builders who see the cracks within the Internet that everybody else has merely realized to stay with. We worth candidates who’ve the intuition to identify a “normalized” downside and the AI-native curiosity to create an answer utilizing the newest instruments. Our tradition is constructed on iteration, leveraging AI to ship quicker as we speak to make it higher tomorrow, whereas guaranteeing that each enchancment, regardless of how small, is shared throughout the staff to carry everybody up. If you’re the kind of one that values curiosity over paperwork, and that AI is a associate in fixing robust issues to maintain the Internet shifting ahead, you’ll match proper in.

Available Locations: Austin, New York, San Francisco

About the Team

We handle an inner, multi-region PostgreSQL platform that permits engineers to quickly construct, deploy, and function companies. Our mission is to supply a extremely obtainable, steady, and self-service platform with clear operational visibility. As a Systems Engineer, you’ll collaborate with database engineers, builders, and roads groups to evolve our database structure and automation. You can be instrumental in scaling our PostgreSQL roads and enhancing database reliability. If you might be keen about PostgreSQL, automation, reliability, and database tooling, let’s join!

Role Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and handle PostgreSQL database clusters in manufacturing environments.
• Develop and preserve database tooling for automation, monitoring and efficiency tuning.
• Implement excessive availability, backup and catastrophe restoration options.
• Work carefully with Infrastructure and Applications groups to combine database instruments.
• Implement proactive options utilizing observability instruments to watch database well being.
• Optimize database efficiency, indexing methods, and question tuning.

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

Must-Have Skills

• Experience with constructing, scaling, and managing large-scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL database clusters, encompassing excessive availability failover, and catastrophe restoration methods.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt) .
• Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Experience constructing and sustaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
• Experience with containerization applied sciences like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience optimizing database efficiency and question tuning.
• Experience with alerting and monitoring instruments reminiscent of Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience creating software program in Go, Ruby or C/C++
• Contributions to PostgreSQL or related open-source tasks.
• Expertise in database schema migrations and automation utilizing instruments like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
• Experience with connection pooling options reminiscent of PgBouncer, HAProxy.
• Experience with non-relational information shops reminiscent of Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value shops (eg., Redis)

Compensation

Compensation could also be adjusted relying on work location.

• For Bay Area primarily based hires: Estimated annual wage of $157,000 – $196,000
• For New York primarily based hires: Estimated annual wage of $150,000 – $187,000

Equity

This position is eligible to take part in Cloudflare’s fairness plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare gives an entire package deal of advantages and applications to assist you and your loved ones.  Our advantages applications might help you pay well being care bills, assist caregiving, construct capital for the longer term and make life a little bit simpler and enjoyable!  The under is an outline of our advantages for workers within the United States, and advantages could range for workers primarily based exterior the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand psychological well being assist and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(ok) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time without work protecting trip and sick go away
• Leave applications, together with parental, being pregnant well being, medical, and bereavement go away

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not only a extremely formidable, large-scale expertise firm. We’re a extremely formidable, large-scale expertise firm with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to assist construct a greater Internet is defending the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we’ve geared up greater than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 international locations with highly effective instruments to defend themselves in opposition to assaults that might in any other case censor their work, expertise already utilized by Cloudflare’s enterprise prospects–for gratis.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to make sure that state and native governments have the best degree of safety and reliability at no cost, in order that their constituents have entry to election data and voter registration. Since the mission, we’ve supplied companies to greater than 425 native authorities election web sites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released1.1.1.1 to assist repair the muse of the Internet by constructing a quicker, safer and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is accessible publicly for everybody to make use of – it’s the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever launched. Here’s the deal – we don’t retailer shopper IP addresses by no means, ever. We will proceed to abide by our privateness dedication and be certain that no person information is bought to advertisers or used to focus on customers.

Sound like one thing you’d prefer to be part of? We’d love to listen to from you!

Please notice that candidates who progress to the provide stage of the interview course of could also be requested to attend an in-person interview inside one of many Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More particulars about this can be obtainable at that stage of the interview course of.

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