Platform Configuration Engineer

A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related field; OR have relevant background/experience to the field.
A deep understanding of performance, security, and user interactions in complex, distributed systems
Experience developing a configuration management framework at scale (e.g. SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible)
Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritize between competing demands
Proficiency in Python or similar language
Experience in designing and implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems
Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)
Strong English language oral and written communications skills

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds 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!
Available Locations: Remote Portugal, Netherlands, France, UK, and Germany

About the Department
Cloudflares Production Engineering Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month. Production Engineering ensures all of the new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing customer base.
The Platform Configuration Team within the Production Engineering organization is responsible for ensuring that we can provision and manage our infrastructure in a manner that supports both rapid innovation and safe change at scale to provide the speed and reliability that Cloudflare is known for.
The Platform Configuration Team has a unique role in Cloudflare in that we get visibility into many different aspects of how Cloudflares systems work. This is an incredible opportunity to work on Cloudflares next generation of configuration management systems.
What you'll do
In this role, you'll help us:

Re-imagine and redesign Configuration Management tooling for a rapidly evolving, global infrastructure capable of handling over 20% of all Internet traffic
Improve and extend our existing deployment tools, frameworks and processes to provide key enhancements to extensibility and testability
Design, implement and teach best-practices giving our internal users the most flexibility with the easiest learning-curve
Own operations, reliability, availability and security of our platform configuration systems
Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge

You may be a good fit for our team if you have, What Makes Cloudflare Special?
Were not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. Were 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 Cloudflares 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. Heres the deal - we dont 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 youd like to be a part of? Wed 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.
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