Systems Reliability Engineer

About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today, Cloudflare operates the most interconnected edge network in the world which handles 10% of all Internet requests.  Our 153 global data centers process more than 10 million requests per second, serving more than 1.4 trillion page views to 2.8 billion people every month.  Our customers range from Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits to small businesses and budding entrepreneurs. Every day, up to 20,000 new customers sign up for Cloudflare.  Our network protects and accelerates any Internet application without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Given the scale at which we operate and the scope of our mission, our team is hard at work to solve some very tough engineering challenges.

Come join us!

About the Role

An engineering role at Cloudflare provides an opportunity address some big challenges, at scale.  We believe that with our talented team, we can solve some of the biggest security, reliability and performance problems facing the Internet. Just how big?  

• We have in excess of 15 Terabits of network transit capacity
• We process 10% of the world’s Internet traffic
• We operate 153 Points-of-presence around the world
• We serve more traffic than Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Instagram, Bing, & Wikipedia combined
• Anytime we push code, it immediately affects over 200 million internet users
• Every day, up to 20,000 new customers sign-up for Cloudflare service
• Every week, the average Internet user touches us more than 500 times

We are looking for talented Systems Reliability Engineers to build and operate the platform which makes Cloudflare customers place their trust in us.  Our SREs come from a variety of technical backgrounds and have built up their knowledge working in different environments. But the common factors across all of our reliability-focused engineers include a passion for automation, scalability, and operational excellence.  Our SRE teams monitor our network in a “follow the sun” approach with offices in Singapore, London, and San Francisco.

We are still a small team, well-funded, growing quickly and focused on building an extraordinary company.  This is a superb opportunity to join a high-performing team and scale our high-growth network as Cloudflare’s business grows.  You will build tools to constantly improve availability, performance, uptime and response times. You will nurture a passion for an “automate everything” approach that makes systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.   

Cloudflare SREs work in one of these 4 teams:

• Core Operations
• Edge Operations