Cloudflare

Distributed Systems Engineer – Data Platform, Logs and Audit Logs

Cloudflare

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Lisbon • Portugal

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Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaKafkaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusSaltStackSplunkSQLTerraform

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
Benefits
  • 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 - 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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