Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes platform

Cloudflare · Hybrid · $194,000 - $266,000 · hybrid About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on the Kubernetes platform team at Cloudflare, you'll play a crucial role in building and maintaining the tools that help engineers deploy and operate the services that make Cloudflare work. Our mission is to provide a reliable and flexible platform to help product teams release new software efficiently and safely. Responsibilities Design scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth. Collaborate with application teams to understand their needs and challenges, and help them choose the best way to architect their systems to run well in our Kubernetes environment. Enhance the platform's security, stability, and efficiency. Respond to, resolve, and prevent incidents impacting the platform or our users. Contribute to the open source community, focusing on projects such as Envoy, Contour, Consul, etcd, cdk8s, Cloudprober, Calico, Ceph, Rook, KubeVirt, and more. Requirements Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters. Experience operating systems on-premise at scale in roles such as SRE, systems design or architecture. Excellent debugging skills in a Linux environment. Knowledge of how container runtimes work inside of Linux. A firm grasp of IP networking including routing and iptables/nftables. Ability to work with codebases in Go, TypeScript, and Bash/shell. The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs, build consensus, and drive the effort to solve the problem. Nice to Have Familiarity with building platforms across multiple zones and regions. Experience with configuration management frameworks such as SaltStack or Ansible. Experience with continuous deployment tooling like ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts. Operational/administrator experience with etcd, Ceph, Rook, KubeVirt, CNIs, ClusterAPI, Envoy, and/or Contour. Experience as a user of Prometheus, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Vault, Redis, and/or Consul. Compensation The estimated annual salary ranges for this role are: California based hires: $194,000 - $266,000 Colorado based hires: $168,000 - $231,000 New York based hires: $185,000 - $254,000 Washington based hires: $185,000 - $254,000 Washington DC based hires: $185,000 - $254,000 Canada based hires: $150,000 - $206,000 Benefits Cloudflare offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including: 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