Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering

Responsibilities: Design & Scale Infrastructure: Architect, deploy, and maintain robust distributed systems, focusing on high availability, low latency, and horizontal scalability. Optimize Performance: Analyze system bottlenecks, optimize kernel and network stacks, and fine-tune resource utilization across global server fleets. Drive Automation: Build and maintain internal tools and automation frameworks to streamline infrastructure deployment, configuration management, and monitoring. Ensure Reliability: Participate in architecture reviews, capacity planning, and proactive system health monitoring to guarantee maximum uptime and resilience. Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with Security, Network Engineering, and Product teams to integrate infrastructure solutions smoothly across the entire stack.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience: Demonstrable professional experience building and managing large-scale distributed systems or Linux production environments. Proficiency in at least one systems programming or scripting language with a track record of writing clean, maintainable code. Experience using AI to optimize your daily work. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a methodical approach to diagnosing complex system-level failures.

Bonus Points: Experience managing containerized workloads at scale using Kubernetes, Docker, or similar orchestration platforms. Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, SaltStack).Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies for infrastructure. 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 released 1.1.1.1 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! 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. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.