Develop and enhance our customer-facing APIs focusing on performance, reliability, and an intuitive user experience.
Design, build, and maintain our near real-time alerting platform , from data processing and anomaly detection to reliable notification delivery.
Optimise the performance of complex analytical queries that power our APIs and dashboards, working closely with the database platform team.
Create intuitive and powerful tools that allow customers to explore their data and configure meaningful alerts based on logs and metrics.
Scale our API and alerting infrastructure to support a growing number of internal and external use cases.
Collaborate with front-end engineers and product managers to define API contracts and deliver a seamless data experience for our users.
Ensure the operational health of our APIs and alerting systems by developing comprehensive monitoring, and participating in an on-call rotation (with the flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours as needed). Key
Requirements
As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools.
Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up.
If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
As an engineer in our organisation, you will have the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems challenges across different parts of our data stack.
This system is a high-throughput, low-latency powerhouse, primarily written in Go, and is tasked with ingesting, processing, and intelligently routing massive volumes of data originating from across Cloudflare’s vast global network to multiple core destinations.
Analytics and Alerts: Members of this group are at the forefront of developing our public APIs such as the GraphQL Analytics API, providing customers and internal Cloudflare teams with flexible access to their data.
experience working in software development covering distributed systems and scalable APIs.
Strong programming skills (Go is preferable) , with a deep understanding of software development best practices for building performant, customer-facing services. Hands-on
experience with modern observability stacks, including Prometheus, Grafana , and a strong understanding of handling high-cardinality metrics at scale.
Strong knowledge of SQL , including extensive
experience with complex query optimisation .
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with other teams across Cloudflare. •
Experience developing and scaling APIs, particularly GraphQL, is a strong plus. •
Experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink) for real-time processing is a plus. •
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like SALT or Terraform is a plus. •
Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes , is a plus.
Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
Experience
Qualifications 3+ years of
Benefits
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.
Contact
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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.
Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with.
We are looking for experienced and highly motivated engineers to join our DATA Org and help build the future of data at Cloudflare.
Our organisation is responsible for the entire data lifecycle - from ingestion and processing to storage and retrieval - powering the critical logs and analytics that provide our customers with real-time visibility into the health and performance of their online properties.
Our mission is to empower customers to leverage their data to drive better outcomes for their business.
We build and maintain a suite of high-performance, scalable systems that handle more than a billion events in a second.