Zaraz Systems Engineer

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. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
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!
About the Department Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare's edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.
About the Team Cloudflare Zaraz allows engineers and product teams to fuel the growth of their web applications using 3rd party tools while maintaining high performance metrics, minimizing security risks, and respecting privacy obligations. In doing so, the team helped establish the open source Managed Components initiative as a new Internet standard to improve how third party code is packaged for inclusion in digital products across a range of devices.
Building on its successful adoption so far, we're looking to expand the Cloudflare Zaraz category & catalog with a fresh complement of growth tools to continue removing obstacles in the path to develop thriving Internet properties.
We are a tight-knit team, communicating & collaborating regularly. We like to celebrate our achievements, support each other when we make mistakes, and hold each other and our work to the highest standard.
What you'll do In this role, you will join world class engineers in shaping new products built entirely on Cloudflare's global network, while continuing to nurture the growing impact of Cloudflare Zaraz on the Internet - ensuring continual reliability, maintaining best-in-class performance, and implementing new features and functionality.
You will be encouraged to bring ideas and own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. On any given day, you might write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem, ship a new feature layered upon 3 different technologies, or fix a bug in how our user experience renders. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including, but not limited to Typescript, Go, Rust. We use Workers heavily and creatively.
If applicable to ongoing projects, you will also support the health and availability of services by being part of an on-call rotation.
About you We want you to love it here! This role is a good fit for you if:
you bring a passion for meeting business needs while building technically innovative solutions, and excel at shifting between the two - understanding how big-picture goals inform technical details, and vice-versa.
you are bold and persistent in your efforts to get your work across the finish line
you are excited to collaborate & communicate with engineers across Cloudflare, and contribute at many layers of the stack
you take pride in shipping effective, reliable code
you are energized by learning new skills, battling through mind-bending debugging sessions, and sharing your knowledge with others
you feel that documenting your work is just as important as delivering the code
you want to join a team that upholds a culture of support, open and honest communication, and vulnerability, and that values collaboration over heroism
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience 5+ years experience working with high volume software applications, with a strong focus on TypeScript programming language
Ability to scope, work on and deliver initiatives independently
Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language such as Go, Rust, or C++
Strong written communication skills for contributing to internal and public-facing technical documentation, and authoring blog posts
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design
Bonus Points Experience building reliable, high performance distributed systems or on cloud platforms
Experience using the Cloudflare Workers development platform
Experience contributing to OSS software development or maintaining OSS projects
Available Locations Lisbon or remote PT, London or Remote UK, Paris of Remote FR, Amsterdam or Remote NL, Munich or Remote DE
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!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
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. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
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