Senior Systems Engineer - Registrar

Available Locations: Austin or Lisbon
About the Department
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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.
About the Team
Domain management is the foundation for any online presence and Cloudflare Registrar is our answer to a simple and straightforward experience. The Registrar product manages the full lifecycle of the domains, including searching/registering for new domains and transferring/renewing existing ones. Onboarding domains on Cloudflare is the gateway to the vast array of Cloudflare services.
What you'll do
We are looking for a talented systems engineer to be part of our engineering team. Come be part of the team and work with a group of passionate, talented engineers that will be creating innovative products. The amount of requests being processed is massive and we utilize all the latest technology to ensure its scalability and availability.
Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on designing, building and scaling data infrastructure
• Experience with product teams to understand goals and develop robust and scalable solutions that align with the customer need
• Strong communication skills, especially around articulating technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working on, and deploying, large scale systems in Typescript, Go, Ruby/Rails, Java, or other high performance languages
• Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases
• Strong systems level programming skills
• Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems that all websites face
• Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)

Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, running and scaling tools and services that support the full spectrum of domain management.
• Analyzing and communicating complex technical requirements and concepts, identifying the highest priority areas, and carving a path to delivery
• Improving system design and architecture to ensure stability and performance of the internal and customer-facing compliance concerns
• Working closely with Cloudflare's Trust and Safety team to help make the internet a better place
• Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of production services, including participation in on-call rotations

Bonus Points

• Experience with Cloudflare Developer Platform
• Experience with Ruby or Go (or a strong desire to learn)
• Experience working with OpenAPI
• Experience with AI coding tools
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Kibana, Grafana, and/or Prometheus
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres)
• Experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI
• Experience with DNS (and DNSSEC)
• Experience in the registry/registrar industry

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