We're seeking a highly skilled Member of Technical Staff to join our Compute Infrastructure team. As a key member of this team, you will design, build, and operate massive-scale clusters and orchestration platforms that power frontier AI training, inference, and agent workloads at unprecedented scale.
\nIn this role, you will push the boundaries of container orchestration far beyond existing systems like Kubernetes, manage exascale compute resources, optimize for high-performance training runs and production serving, and collaborate closely with research and systems teams to deliver reliable, ultra-scalable infrastructure that enables xAI's next-generation models and applications.
\nResponsibilities include building and managing massive-scale clusters, designing, developing, and extending an in-house container orchestration platform, collaborating with research teams to architect and optimize compute clusters, profiling, debugging, and resolving complex system-level performance bottlenecks, and owning end-to-end infrastructure initiatives.
\nTo succeed in this role, you will need deep expertise in virtualization technologies and advanced containerization/sandboxing, strong proficiency in systems programming languages such as C/C++ and Rust, and proven track record profiling, debugging, and optimizing complex system-level performance issues.
\nPreferred skills and experience include experience in Linux kernel development, hypervisor extensions, or low-level system programming for compute-intensive workloads, operating or designing large-scale AI training/inference clusters, and familiarity with performance tools, tracing, and debugging in production distributed environments.
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\nAt 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.
\nWe protect and accelerate 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.
\nAvailable Location:
\nAustin
\nAbout the Department
\nCloudflare’s engineering teams build and maintain the systems and products that power our global platform. A global platform which is within approximately 50 milliseconds of about 95% of the Internet connected population, serving on average, over 46 million HTTP requests per second.
\nAbout the Team
\nCloudflare engineering delivers multiple products and features to production at a tremendous pace, and depends on real time load balancing and long term capacity planning to do so with high performance and efficiency. The MAPS team is responsible for highly granular and large-scale resource usage instrumentation and measurement of Cloudflare's edge platform. The team builds and runs data pipelines, as well as systems and libraries for measuring and collecting the data, and collaborates closely across the range of teams that build and run services on Cloudflare's global edge network to ensure consistent, complete, and correct attribution of all resource usage.
\nWhat are we looking for?
\nWe are looking for highly motivated software engineers to join our MAPS team. You’ll have a strong programming background with a deep understanding and experience developing and maintaining distributed systems. You’ll need to be able to communicate effectively with engineers across the company to understand the behaviours of our systems and products in order to deliver tooling to meet their testing needs. You will also work closely with product managers to support our public facing synthetic testing and load testing products for enterprise customers.
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\nWhat Makes Cloudflare Special?
\nWe’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
\nProject 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 customers--at no cost.
\nAthenian 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.
\n1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released.
\nHere’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.
\nSound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
\nThis 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.
\nCloudflare 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. 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 e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
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\nBase salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
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