Full Stack Engineer - Microservices

Available Locations: Austin, US & Remote, US

About the Department

Cloudflare’s Engineering Team builds and runs the software that handles about 10% of HTTP requests on the Internet today. We also build and run the internal tools that builds and runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world’s largest networks with data centers in 102 cities worldwide.

About the Role 

Back in 2014, Cloudflare launched Universal SSL to provide all of our customers with the security of encrypted traffic between visitors and Cloudflare’s network. On the day we flipped the switch, we doubled the amount of sites using SSL/TLS on the internet. Since then, we’ve been working on providing even more ways to encrypt traffic easier and more effectively. To better serve our customers, we’re constantly improving our systems for issuing, managing, and deploying TLS certificates. By joining Cloudflare’s Security Engineering team, you can help ensure that every site owner has the ability to provide their users with a secure connection.

Your code will help ensure millions of websites have access to encryption. As such, the results of your code will be felt by millions of site owners and billions of visitors every day. We’re continuously providing technology to site owners that was previously only available to the largest organizations. Your contributions will help make the web a faster, safer, better, and more heavily encrypted place.

What you'll do

Cloudflare is looking for a Web Services Engineer to help us build services (small or micro) with RESTful APIs and their own datastores using Python and Go. You will also write/update a spec for your service, so others know how it works. In this role you will integrate multiple services via message queue-like (Kafka) systems and evaluate 3rd party and open source tools. You will have the opportunity to contribute to open source projects that we use internally and build tools to allow other departments to keep track of certificate status. You will design and implement alerts, write procedures for ops to handle such alerts, or be escalated-to around unresolved operational issues. You will also need to read and understand code from a legacy codebase to migrate logic to a modern services architecture and review the code of fellow engineers via pull requests.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Experience designing, coding, and implementing applications from the datastore to the public interface
• Awareness of the constraints around code performance, data storage and retrieval, caching, distributed systems, and customer needs
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5 years of development experience
• Used statically typed languages (we use Golang)
• Willing to use (and learn, if needed) Go and Python on a regular basis
• Willing to use (and learn, if needed) PHP on a less-regular basis
• Experienced with designing, consuming, or implementing RESTful services
• Experienced with working with distributed systems, SOA, or microservices
• Working knowledge of traditional databases (PostgreSQL or other relational database)
• Passionate about writing reusable code that empowers other developers to work faster and smarter
• Can deliver well-tested code that enterprises can rely on
• Working source control knowledge including branching, merging, and rebasing (we use git)
• Strong work ethic and willingness to continuously improve

Bonus Points

• Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc)
• Experience working with a GLNP (Go, Linux, Nginx, PostgreSQL) stack
• Experience with PL/PGSQL stored procedures
• Experience with key-value data stores (Redis, HBase, HDFS, or other

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave