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Systems Engineer

Cloudflare· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Cloudflare engineering role focused on building and maintaining production reliability infrastructure, defining SLOs/SLIs, and enabling other teams with reliability data and tooling at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build the Platform: Create and maintain production reliability testing infrastructure and availability reporting.
  • Define Reliability Metrics: Measure uptime metrics like correctness, availability, and latency SLIs/SLOs. Develop, document, and execute SLI/SLO plans to verify systems continue to operate as expected.
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with engineering teams to understand how their systems function and interact with other Cloudflare systems in production at a huge scale.
  • Communicate & Improve: Provide clear and concise feedback to engineering and product teams as an excellent communicator. Help drive continued improvements in the software development and reliability measurement processes.

Qualifications

  • Experience: Proven track record as a software engineer or similar role with a deep understanding of developing and maintaining distributed systems.
  • System Design: Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and highly-available distributed systems.
  • Programming Languages: Programming experience with one of the following languages: Go, Rust, or Python.
  • Reliability Metrics: Deep understanding and hands-on experience measuring uptime metrics like correctness, availability, and latency using SLOs/SLIs.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsSLO/SLI design and measurement

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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