Senior Systems Engineer, Developer Tooling

Cloudflare, Inc

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Austin, TXLisbon, Lisboa, PortugalLondon, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Salary: $66,000–$91,000 / yr
Posted: 15 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Cloudflare, Inc

Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.

Cloudflare, Inc currently has 110 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Systems Engineer, Developer Tooling

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The Senior Systems Engineer - Developer Tooling joins the team responsible for building and managing tools that enable engineers to deploy and operate core services. This role involves designing and building scalable, resilient systems and developer productivity tooling to improve development practices and resource efficiency for CPU, bandwidth, and storage. The engineer will harden platforms against security threats, help application teams architect systems, and respond to incidents impacting core platforms. Required skills include experience with large-scale distributed systems or Linux production environments, proficiency in systems programming or scripting languages like Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python, and experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should also possess source control experience, analytical troubleshooting skills, and knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible or Terraform.

What does a Systems Engineer earn?

Median $160000 from 251 postings across 41 companies.

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Skills

Go Rust C/C++ Python Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Terraform Ansible SaltStack Linux TCP/IP DNS infrastructure-as-code Distributed Systems Source Control

What you'll do

Design and build scalable and resilient systems to support company growth.
Develop developer productivity tooling to streamline software deployment and operations.
Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues.
Improve the efficiency of managing CPU, bandwidth, and storage resources.
Advise application teams on system architecture and technical challenges.
Respond to and prevent incidents impacting core platforms.
Drive initiatives to improve development systems and engineering productivity.

What we're looking for

Demonstrable professional experience building and managing large-scale distributed systems or Linux production environments (preferred).
Proficiency in at least one systems programming or scripting language like Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python with a track record of writing clean code (preferred).
Experience managing containerized workloads at scale using Kubernetes, Docker, or similar orchestration platforms (preferred).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies for infrastructure (preferred).
Source control experience including branching, merging, and rebasing (preferred).
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a methodical approach to diagnosing complex system-level failures (preferred).
Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible, Terraform, or SaltStack (preferred).
Export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

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