System Engineer, Vectorize

Overview At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. The company runs one of the world’s largest networks powering millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal | London, UK Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. ETI leverages Cloudflare’s edge and network to deliver tools and products at scale and efficiency that would be difficult for other organizations. What you’ll do This is a newly found team focused on building out our brand-new vector database offering, designed to let you build full-stack, AI-powered applications entirely on Cloudflare’s global network. In this role, you will work with a top-notch engineering team to expand Cloudflare’s capabilities by ensuring continual reliability, maintaining best-in-class performance, and implementing new features and functionality. You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. On any given day, you might write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem, modify how R2 Storage processes requests, or fix a bug in how our user experience renders. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including, but not limited to Typescript, Go, Rust. Responsibilities Develop and maintain software across the full stack to support the vector database offering and AI-powered applications. Collaborate with a strong engineering team to ensure reliability and performance. Design, implement, and document features from inception to release. Address bugs and optimize user experience rendering. Contribute across multiple languages and technologies (Typescript, Go, Rust). Qualifications 5+ years experience working with distributed systems or developing on cloud platforms. Experience managing high volume software applications. Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design. Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language such as Go, Rust, or C++. Strong expertise in Machine Learning, including experience with data processing and retrieval algorithms. Bonus Points Familiarity with Vector Databases and associated Machine Learning Algorithms. Experience working in low-latency real time environments such as game streaming, game engine architecture, high frequency trading, payment systems. Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale Linux-based distributed system. What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re 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: Since 2014, we’ve equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers—at no cost. Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the 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. Since the project, we’ve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. 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. We don’t store client IP addresses and will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers. Export control and Equal Opportunity 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. 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 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. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. 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