Systems Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc

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Location
Lisbon, Portugal
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4 days ago
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Similar $159k
$118k most similar roles pay here $202k

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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 220 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $220,000–$287,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer As a Systems Engineer, you will join the team responsible for building and managing tools that enable engineers to deploy and operate core services. You will perform both software engineering and operational tasks, including designing scalable systems, creating developer productivity tooling, and hardening platforms against security threats and resource contention. Your daily work involves improving development practices, optimizing resources like CPU and bandwidth, and collaborating with application teams on architectural decisions while responding to incidents. The role requires proficiency in systems programming or scripting languages such as Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python. You will manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes or Docker, utilize CI/CD pipelines, and work with infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible or Terraform. Experience with Linux internals, TCP/IP, and DNS protocols is essential for managing large-scale distributed systems and production environments.

What does a Systems Engineer earn?

Median $152000 from 203 postings across 33 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build scalable, resilient systems to support company growth.
  • Develop tools to improve developer productivity and internal workflows.
  • Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues.
  • Optimize the management of system resources such as CPU, bandwidth, and storage.
  • Advise application teams on architectural decisions and technical challenges.
  • Respond to and prevent incidents impacting core platforms.
  • Improve overall development systems and engineering practices.

What we're looking for

  • Experience building and managing large-scale distributed systems or Linux production environments.
  • Proficiency in a systems programming or scripting language such as Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python.
  • Experience managing containerized workloads at scale using Kubernetes, Docker, or similar platforms.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies for infrastructure.
  • Source control experience including branching, merging, and rebasing.
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to diagnose complex system-level failures.
  • 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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