Cloudflare
Senior Software Engineer: Distributed Systems, WARP
Job Posted 6 Days Ago
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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of scalable backend systems for our Zero Trust solutions, influencing technical direction and managing project deliverables.
Available locations: Lisbon, Portugal, London, United Kingdom, Austin, United States
What you'll do
As a Senior Software Engineer in the WARP team you will join a team that works on the backend system that allows our customers to manage their devices via our Zero Trust Network solution.
In this role, you will work on the design, capacity planning, development, maintenance and enhancement of features that make our WARP and Zero Trust product, such as Device Posture, Orchestration and Notification.
We are looking for engineers that are versatile and display leadership qualities capable of setting technical direction of the product, with a focus on growth, scalability and high-availability.
You will support the management team on the planning, priority, deadlines and deliverables of solutions to our customers requirements.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
Responsibilities
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed
What you'll do
As a Senior Software Engineer in the WARP team you will join a team that works on the backend system that allows our customers to manage their devices via our Zero Trust Network solution.
In this role, you will work on the design, capacity planning, development, maintenance and enhancement of features that make our WARP and Zero Trust product, such as Device Posture, Orchestration and Notification.
We are looking for engineers that are versatile and display leadership qualities capable of setting technical direction of the product, with a focus on growth, scalability and high-availability.
You will support the management team on the planning, priority, deadlines and deliverables of solutions to our customers requirements.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Technical leadership experience
- Experience managing high available systems with disaster recovery support.
- Experience with Go, Rust or similar programming languages
- Experience in Typescript
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs at scale
- Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Knowledge on distributed NoSQL databases
- Excellent debugging experience and optimization skills
- Experience with Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
- Provide technical leadership to the team projects and objectives
- Influence a team of engineers, coach and mentor a distributed team.
- Support the management team on the strategy and roadmap of the team, identifying opportunities and critical projects for the success of the team and product.
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across the Zero Trust teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Support on the management of project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed
Top Skills
Go
Kubernetes
MySQL
Postgres
Restful Apis
Rust
SQL
Typescript
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