Distributed Systems Engineer Data Platform Logs and Audit Logs

Locations Available: Austin (US)

About Role

We are actively seeking experienced and highly motivated Distributed Systems Engineers to join Cloudflares dynamic DATA Organisation. This is a pivotal opportunity to contribute to the future of data at Cloudflare working on systems that are fundamental to our global operations and customer insights. Our organisation is responsible for the entire data lifecycle encompassing everything from initial ingestion and sophisticated processing to robust storage and efficient retrieval. These systems are the backbone that power critical logs and analytics providing our customers with real-time actionable visibility into the health performance and security of their online properties.

Our overarching mission is to empower customers to leverage their data effectively enabling them to drive superior outcomes for their businesses. To achieve this we design build and maintain a suite of high-performance massively scalable distributed systems that are engineered to handle an unprecedented scale processing well over a billion events per second. As an engineer within our organisation you will be presented with unique challenges across various critical parts of our intricate data stack. This role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to solutions that operate at the very edge of internet infrastructure.

Our Data Organisation is strategically composed of several key teams each focusing on a distinct aspect of our comprehensive data platform:

• Data Delivery / Data Pipeline: This team is responsible for the design development and operation of our distributed data delivery pipeline. This system is a high-throughput low-latency powerhouse primarily written in Go and is tasked with ingesting processing and intelligently routing massive volumes of data originating from across Cloudflares vast global network to multiple core destinations. This involves handling diverse data types and ensuring reliable timely delivery to various downstream systems.

• Analytical Database Platform:

• Data Retrieval (Customer-Facing Products): This department is focused on building and continuously improving our customer-facing products making data not only accessible but also genuinely actionable for our users. This department comprises two main groups:
• Analytics and Alerts: Members of this group are at the forefront of developing our public APIs such as the GraphQL Analytics API providing customers and internal Cloudflare teams with flexible access to their data. They will also work on our alerting platform empowering users to configure and receive near real-time alerts based on the critical logs and metrics observed by our robust data platform. This includes designing intuitive alerting mechanisms and ensuring the reliability of notification systems.
• Logs and Audit Logs: This specialised team is dedicated to building a robust and easy-to-use logging platform that powers reliable data delivery and seamless integrations with customer destinations. The teams mission is to make it simple for customers to access manage and use their log data ensuring that critical datasets including comprehensive audit logs are delivered securely and efficiently to their preferred storage and analysis platforms. The work spans developing intuitive connectors ensuring data integrity optimising delivery pipelines and upholding strict standards for compliance performance and usability.

This particular role is focused on the Logs and Audit Logs group. As a Software Engineer you will focus on the following areas:

• Design build and operate a robust logging platform ensuring reliable logging and secure data transfer to a wide array of customer destinations and third-party integrations.
• Develop and maintain high-performance data connectors and integrations for our log-shipping products focusing on usability scalability and data integrity.
• Create and manage systems for handling comprehensive audit logs ensuring they are delivered securely and adhere to strict compliance and performance standards.
• Scale and optimise the data delivery pipeline to handle massive data volumes with low latency identifying and removing bottlenecks in data processing and routing.
• Work closely with Product and other engineering teams to define requirements for a new logging platform and integrations.
• Maintain the operational health of our log delivery platform through comprehensive monitoring and participation in an on-call rotation (with flexibility for out-of-hours technical issue resolution).
• Collaborate on the architectural evolution of our data egress platform researching and implementing new technologies to improve efficiency and reliability.

• 3 years of experience working in software development covering distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Strong programming skills (Go is preferable) with a deep understanding of software development best practices for building resilient high-throughput systems.
• Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks including Prometheus Grafana and a strong understanding of handling high-cardinality metrics at scale.
• Strong knowledge of SQL including experience with query optimisation.
• A solid foundation in computer science including algorithms data structures distributed systems and concurrency.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a willingness to debug troubleshoot and learn about complex problems at high scale.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with other teams across Cloudflare.
• Experience with data streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka Flink) is a strong plus.
• Experience with various logging platforms or SIEMs (e.g. Splunk Datadog Sumo Logic) and storage destinations (e.g. S3 R2 GCS) is a plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like SALT or Terraform is a plus.
• Experience with Linux container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

If youre passionate about building scalable and performant data platforms using cutting-edge technologies and want to work with a world-class team of engineers then we want to hear from you! Join us in our mission to help build a better internet for everyone!

Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

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 employees based outside the U.S.

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

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: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 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 Cloudflares 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 weve 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 - 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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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 their or any other persons 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. 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. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to changing the application process providing documents in an alternate format using a sign language interpreter or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job please contact us via e-mail at or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco CA 94107.