Life-Cycle Infrastructure Architect - Cloudflare
Austin, TX
About the Job
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.
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!
Infrastructure Life-Cycle Software Architect
Location: Austin, San Francisco, NYC, Champaign IL, Seattle, Atlanta, Washington DC or Remote US
Cloudflare’s Infrastructure Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month. We ensure that 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.
What you'll do
As Cloudflare continues to scale it is critical that we are looking holistically across our infrastructure and business processes to ensure that we are propelling Cloudflare forward as we expand across our hundreds of data centers world wide. To that end we are in the process of developing a holistic view of our infrastructure that integrates directly into our billing, procurement and other systems. As the architect you will be working across all infrastructure teams including capacity, asset management, hardware, network and infrastructure operations, with the initial focus being on integration to a comprehensive ERP. You will collaborate with these teams as well as architects across other areas of the business to create and build an architecture that will carry us forward to $5B.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 10+ years of experience working with distributed systems.
- Experience with process and data modeling for large systems
- Experience in designing and maintaining broadly cross functional systems.
- Excellent collaboration skills
- Proven ability to convey ideas effectively through verbal and written communication
- Ability to translate business needs into requirements, design documents and technical solutions
- Knowledge of API design standards, patterns and best practices
- Proven ability to use data to drive business outcomes
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
- Ability to do quick turn-around prototyping to prove or disprove architectural approaches
- Experience with Core Financial ERP tools such as SAP/Oracle and/or architecting data center infrastructure asset management software
Bonus Points
- Experience debugging, measuring, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale distributed system.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Colorado-based hires and Washington hires: Estimated annual salary of $203,000 - $248,000
- For New York City-based and California (excluding Bay Area): Estimated annual salary of $230,000 - $281,000
- For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $234,000 - $286,000
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. 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?
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: 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 Cloudflare’s 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.
1.1.1.1: We released1.1.1.1 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. Here’s the deal - we don’t 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 you’d like to be a part of? We’d 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.
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 actualrace, 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.
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