Senior Software Engineer: Distributed Systems, WARP

CloudFlare; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Software Engineer in the WARP team, where you'll lead the development of innovative backend systems for Zero Trust solutions. This role is perfect for those who thrive in a collaborative environment, focusing on scalability and high availability. You'll have the opportunity to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and work on exciting projects that enhance customer experience. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this company values your potential and supports your growth. If you're passionate about technology and making a difference, this role is for you!

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Experience in managing high availability systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain large scale software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor a distributed team.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Go

Rust

Typescript

RESTful APIs

SQL

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Debugging

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Software Engineer: Distributed Systems, WARP

Hybrid

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.

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: Lisbon, Portugal, London, United Kingdom, Austin, United States

What you'll do

As a Senior Software Engineer in the WARP team you will join a team that works on the backend system that allows our customers to manage their devices via our Zero Trust Network solution. In this role, you will work on the design, capacity planning, development, maintenance and enhancement of features that make our WARP and Zero Trust product, such as Device Posture, Orchestration and Notification.

We are looking for engineers that are versatile and display leadership qualities capable of setting technical direction of the product, with a focus on growth, scalability and high-availability. You will support the management team on the planning, priority, deadlines and deliverables of solutions to our customers requirements.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• At least 3 years of experience of technical leadership
• Experience managing high available systems with disaster recovery support.
• Experience in at least of the following languages: Go, Rust
• Experience in Typescript
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs at scale
• Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Excellent debugging experience and optimization skills
• Experience with Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to the team projects and objectives
• Influence a team of engineers, coach and mentor a distributed team.
• Support the management team on the strategy and roadmap of the team, identifying opportunities and critical projects for the success of the team and product.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across the Zero Trust teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Support on the management of project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

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.

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.

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