Hardware Systems Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>About Us</strong></div> <div> <p>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. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! </span></p> </div></div><p><strong>Available Locations: <span class="il">Bengaluru</span></strong></p> <h4><strong>About the department</strong></h4> <p>Cloudflare’s Infrastructure group is responsible for building our global network. Our Hardware Engineering team helps research, develop, test, and deploy new equipment enabling 20% of the world’s internet traffic to be served smoothly. Deployed across 330 cities in 120+ countries, the hardware we select helps improve the security, reliability, and performance of the Internet.</p> <h4><strong>About the Role</strong></h4> <p>We need to make thoughtful infrastructure choices affecting a significant portion of the Internet. Hardware we work with includes servers and components, as well as PDUs and network hardware. . As a Hardware Systems Engineer, you will work with colleagues on the Hardware Engineering, Product teams, and Hardware Sourcing teams to troubleshoot and maintain Cloudflare’s worldwide fleet of storage and compute servers.</p> <h4><strong>What you'll do</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Work with software teams to validate bug fixes and assess performance of new firmware revisions</li> <li>Validate and deploy firmware updates to the fleet, monitoring the progress of the rollout for compliance and reliability</li> <li>Work with server and component vendors to obtain, debug, and maintain the latest updates</li> <li>Work with our Site Reliability Engineering teams to triage hardware problem reports</li> <li>Support our Data Centre Engineering teams in resolving hardware issues</li> <li>Develop and maintain automation tools to update firmware on servers and components in Cloudflare’s fleet</li> <li>Communicate your results and updates through blog posts, internal talks, and tickets</li> </ul> <p><strong>Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science</li> <li>Desire to learn about the <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/gen-12-servers/">Cloudflare hardware</a> used by <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/application-security/">20% of all web sites</a></li> <li>Desire to learn how a diverse server fleet is managed at scale</li> <li>Desire to learn the tools Cloudflare uses to maintain and monitor our hardware</li> <li>Knowledge of bash and python and basic Linux task automation</li> <li>Knowledge of x86 server hardware including motherboards, CPUs, memory, storage and firmware updates. Knowledge of other platforms such as arm is a bonus.</li> <li>Knowledge of configuration management principals, in particular we use salt to manage our fleet</li> <li>Kn ... (truncated, view full listing at source)