Cloudflare is looking to solve challenges related to operating a globally distributed key-value store (Quicksilver) that handles billions of keys per second across tens of thousands of servers and over 500 data centers, ensuring data reliability and performance despite network issues, hardware failures, and kernel bugs.
Requirements
- You have previous experience writing robust systems, code quality, performance and technical debt.
- You have proven experience with storage systems, peer to peer systems, large scale distributed systems or simply system programming in general.
- You have previous experience of chasing problems through multiple layers of our software stack.
- You equally enjoy low-level and high-level programming.
- You have a taste for programming languages.
- Quicksilver is written in Go and C.
Responsibilities
- Working on our distributed large scale key-value store, you will write new features in Go and reviewing pull request
- Improving performance, CPU, memory usage, etc.
- Improving our monitoring and our tools, all written in Go
- Help with debugging and investigating hard to reproduce problems
- own and support the whole stack: the code base, the unit and integration test, deployment and rollback plans, operations, monitoring, alerting, debugging and on-call.
Other
- You are flexible and very autonomous.
- You won’t be micromanaged in this role and will be looked to have experience thinking out of the box and coming up with simple and smart designs for complex issues.
- You have a previous track record of being pragmatic and believe in the value of simple solutions.
- You enjoy being a part of a team that challenges each other's designs -- you are good at taking and giving constructive criticism with a goal of producing the best solution.
- You are not afraid of engaging in outages on anti-social hours.
