System Engineer, Vectorize Lisboa

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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. 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.

Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal | London, UK

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. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.

Responsibilities

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. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including, but not limited to Typescript, Go, Rust.

Qualifications

• 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.

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
- -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
- centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first
- 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.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U. S. export control laws, including the U. S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U. S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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
- '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. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via
- mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet, and Computer and Network Security

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