Cloudflare

Software Engineer - Distributed Key Value Store

Amsterdam, Netherlands
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About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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 Quicksilver project and what you can expect

Quicksilver is Cloudflare’s distributed key-value store. It replicates our data in milliseconds all around the world, over thousands and thousands of servers, and across more than 200 data centers. It handles all kinds of network conditions, hardware failures, kernel bugs and is queried over 60,000,000 times per second 24/7. It is a critical function to delivering Cloudflare's products and services to customers, which means we need to ensure it’s super fast, super reliable, and super scalable; as internet properties grow, so will we. 

We’re looking for a collaborative and enthusiastic Systems Engineer to contribute to the evolution of Quicksilver.

Along with the rest of the team, you will own and support the whole stack: the code base, the unit and integration test, deployment and rollback plans, operations, monitoring, alerting and debugging. Quicksilver is written in Go and C++.

Want to know more? Take a look at our blog posts:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-quicksilver-configuration-distribution-at-internet-scale/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-quicksilver-into-production/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-effect-of-switching-to-tcmalloc-on-rocksdb-memory-use/

 

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience

  • You are curious; you are comfortable pursuing issues through multiple layers of a software stack, and enjoy investigating, understanding, and solving problems.
  • You understand the value of simple but considered design for complex issues.
  • You care about writing robust systems, code quality, performance and technical debt. You understand the trade offs that doing rigorous engineering requires.
  • You have a passion for storage systems, peer to peer systems, distributed systems or simply system programming in general.
  • You are pragmatic and believe in the value of design elegance -- a simple solution is often better than a more complex one.
  • You equally enjoy low-level and high-level programming.
  • You enjoy being a part of a highly-collaborative and empathetic team; we give and receive constructive criticism with a goal of  producing the best solution.
  • You are comfortable in a fast-paced, agile environment.

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.

Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

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.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

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