Systems Engineer, Data Intelligence & Analytics Team

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other 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.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Location: Austin (Hybrid)

About the team.

The Data Intelligence & Analytics team at Cloudflare is responsible for building a centralized cloud data lake and an analytics platform that enables our internal Business Partners and Product teams with actionable insights and also provides a 360 view of our business. Our goal is to democratize data, support Cloudflare’s critical business needs, provide reporting and analytics via self-service data applications to fuel existing and new business critical initiatives.

About the role

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join our Austin team to scale our development efforts on Platform Tooling initiatives. You will work on building data application tools and frameworks which empowers our Internal Teams. You will work closely with the Data Engineers on the team to add new features and maintain our data pipelines written in Go. You can expect to interact with various languages and technologies including, but not limited to Go, React, and Clickhouse.

What you'll do

Design and implement key features of our internal applications

Work closely with a cross functional team to design features and solutions that solve critical business problems

Contribute in improving an evolving platform architecture for scalability, observability and reliability

Continuously involved in knowledge sharing and mentorship

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

B.S. or M.S in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields

Experience working with Go, Python, Java, or equivalent programming languages

Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL

Experience with CI/CD, Gitlab CI

Excellent communication & problem solving skills

Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams and work through ambiguous business requirements

Bonus Points

Familiarity with container based deployments such as Docker & Kubernetes

Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform or something similar

Familiarity with Javascript, Typescript, and React

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employe