Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc.

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 185,000 - 254,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking an engineer for its Kubernetes platform team to build and operate the services that power Cloudflare’s globally distributed network. You will design scalable systems, work with product teams to fit Kubernetes workloads, and push the platform toward reliability and safety at scale.

The role blends software engineering with DevOps, requires Go, TypeScript, and Bash, and invites contributions to open source projects.

Qualifications

Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters.
Experience operating systems on-premise at scale in roles such as SRE or systems design.
Excellent debugging skills in a Linux environment.
Knowledge of how container runtimes work inside Linux (isolation, storage, and networking).
A firm grasp of IP networking including routing and iptables/nftables.
Ability to work with codebases in Go, TypeScript, and Bash/shell.
Ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs, build consensus, and drive the effort to solve the problem.

Responsibilities

Design scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth.
Work with application teams to understand their needs and challenges, and help them choose the best way to architect their systems to run well in our Kubernetes environment.
Harden the platform against security threats, noisy neighbours, and accidents.
Improve the efficiency of our use of resources such as CPU, memory, bandwidth, and storage.
Help respond to, resolve, and prevent incidents impacting the platform or our users.
Contribute back to the open source community. Some of our favorite open source projects include: Envoy, Contour, Consul, etcd, cdk8s, Cloudprober, Calico, Ceph, Rook, KubeVirt, and more.