System Engineer, Vectorize Lisboa

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other 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.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team.

About the Department

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers.

What you'll do

This is a newly found team focused on building out our
- new vector database offering, designed to let you build
- stack, AI-powered applications entirely on Cloudflare’s global network. In this role, you will work with a
- notch engineering team to expand Cloudflare's capabilities by ensuring continual reliability, maintaining
-
- class performance, and implementing new features and functionality.

You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. On any given day, you might write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem, modify how R2 Storage processes requests, or fix a bug in how our user experience renders.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 5+ years experience working with distributed systems or developing on cloud platforms.
• Experience managing high volume software applications.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and
  - oriented or functional design.
• Knowledge of at least one modern
  - typed programming language such as Go, Rust, or C++.
• Strong expertise in Machine Learning, including experience with data processing and retrieval algorithms.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Vector Databases and associated Machine Learning Algorithms.
• Experience working in
  - latency real time environments such as game streaming, game engine architecture, high frequency trading, payment systems.
• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a
  - scale Linux-based distributed system

What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious,
- scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious,
- scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

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Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.