Systems Engineer

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.

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.

About the department

The Database Platform Team, a vital part of Cloudflare's Infrastructure Engineering organization, is dedicated to building and operating databases at scale. Our mission is to empower internal engineering teams, enabling them to deliver products quickly and reliably through a robust, automated, and scalable data infrastructure.

What you'll do

The ideal candidate will work alongside database engineers, software developers, and Infrastructure teams, contributing to the evolution of database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
• Develop and optimize database schemas, queries, and procedures for performance and scalability.
• Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning.
• Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
• Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
• Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Experience building large multi-tenant databases, operating, capacity planning, and designing for failover, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
• Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
• Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt).

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
• Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
• Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)
• Experience developing software in Go, Python or C/C++

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Washington D.C. based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.

• 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

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.

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