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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!

Role location: London or Lisbon

Hiring Process & Cloudflare’s Engineering Teams

Cloudflare is a fast growing company and engineering is an ever-evolving function with teams being formed and redefined often. To streamline our hiring for Distributed Systems Engineers at Cloudflare, we’ve created a Single Hiring Pipeline (SHP) that enables candidates to be considered for multiple engineering teams through a single, standardized interview process. This approach allows us to assess your skills and knowledge and match you with the team that best aligns with your strengths and interests. As part of the hiring process you will have the opportunity to meet with and ultimately select one or more teams; here are a few examples of the teams that you could be part of.

Application Performance; Application Security; Zero Trust Services; Serverless, Bot Management; DDoS Protection; Network Services / Magic Products; Full Stack / Microservices; Security / Cryptography; Content Delivery; Email Security; API Security; Client / WARP applications; Machine Learning; Threat Intelligence

About the Role

Cloudflare’s Engineers build and operate the software that helps power 25+ million Internet properties and millions of businesses around the world. Across our engineering organizations, we have opportunities for high caliber, curious and empathetic people to take on big challenges and build some of the best skills in the industry. We’re looking for talented team members to help build high-growth products,  help scale our expanding network, build tools to improve availability, performance, uptime, and response times, and make systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.

Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the Internet better, safer, and more powerful every day. As a Distributed Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, you’ll work on the code that runs close to the end user, runs at a massive scale, and is deployed to 250+ cities around the world.

Examples of software systems at Cloudflare include:

We operate some of the fastest, and most widely distributed services on the Internet. Your work will focus on building robust, secure, and high performance distributed systems. We are a small engineering team operating at a massive scale, so what you do will have a huge impact.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

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.

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.

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 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 athr@cloudflare.comor via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.