Overview
Systems Engineer - Database Platform at Cloudflare. Join to apply for this role and contribute to building and operating databases at scale within the Infrastructure Engineering organization.
About Cloudflare
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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The Department
The Database Platform Team is a vital part of Cloudflare's Infrastructure Engineering organization, dedicated to building and operating databases at scale. Our mission is to empower internal engineering teams, enabling them to deliver products quickly and reliably through a robust, automated, and scalable data infrastructure. We automate database infrastructure, strengthen resiliency, and enable applications to scale, removing operational complexities to let product teams focus on innovation. The role offers an opportunity to develop new features, integrate with database tooling, and advance automation across our platform.
What You'll Do
Work alongside database engineers, software developers, and Infrastructure teams to evolve database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies.Enhance PostgreSQL infrastructure, database reliability, automation, and tooling.Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL databases in production environments.Develop and optimize database schemas, queries, and procedures for performance and scalability.Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring, and performance tuning.Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.Collaborate with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, and database tooling, we'd love to hear from you!
Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
Experience building large multi-tenant databases, operating, capacity planning, and designing for failover, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt).Nice-to-Have Skills
Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using Flyway, Liquibase or goose.Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.Experience with non-relational data stores (e.g., distributed & time-series databases like Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (e.g., Redis).Experience developing software in Go, Python or C / C++.Compensation & Equity
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.Washington D.C. based hires : Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000.This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.Benefits
Health & Welfare Benefits : Medical / Rx, Dental, Vision, FSAs, Commuter Benefits, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, mental health support, and more.Financial Benefits : Short and long-term disability, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) with company match, Employee Stock Participation Plan.Time Off : Flexible PTO, parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.EEO & Accommodations
Cloudflare is an equal opportunity employer. We provide accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require an accommodation to apply, contact hr@cloudflare.com or mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws (EAR). Offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Sound like something you'd like to be part of? We'd love to hear from you!
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