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System Engineer - Cloudflare Hyperdrive
Systems Engineer
Lead the design, deployment, and optimization of Cloudflare’s Hyperdrive platform, ensuring high‑availability, low‑latency services across a global edge network using Linux, networking protocols, and advanced performance tuning.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain the Hyperdrive platform, ensuring 99.99% uptime across the global edge network.
- Implement performance optimizations and latency reductions for high‑traffic web applications.
- Collaborate with security teams to harden infrastructure against DDoS, bot, and other cyber threats.
- Automate deployment pipelines using scripting and configuration management tools.
- Monitor system health, analyze metrics, and troubleshoot complex distributed system issues.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or DevOps roles.
- Strong background in Linux, networking protocols, and distributed systems.
- Proficiency with performance profiling, monitoring, and troubleshooting tools.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and security best practices.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a fast‑paced environment.