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. 

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! 

Location(s) Available: Remote US

About the Team

Capacity Engineering ensures there's always enough capacity—servers, storage, memory, or bandwidth—available whenever and wherever it's needed. The capacity team focuses on creating and optimizing global and regional capacity plans at various altitudes to balance service, infrastructure, financial, and business constraints, directly managing $billions of investment per year. We collaborate closely with engineering teams to understand demand signals and work hand in hand with infrastructure operations teams to deploy the right amount of capacity. Supporting over 25 million internet properties across ~300 cities, we manage infrastructure capacity. Simple as that!

About the Role

As a capacity planning full-stack engineer intern, your primary focus will be on building internal tools and systems for capacity engineering. This entails developing an autonomous capacity planning system to efficiently oversee capacity deployments around the world, covering compute, storage, GPU, and network resources. These internal tools will encompass a wide range of functionalities, from automating server deployment plans to prioritizing global work orders for all infrastructure tasks.

Prerequisite Skills

• Intermediate skills with JavaScript and the React framework
• Familiarity with server side development in Node.js or Python
• Strong skills in network services, including Rest APIs and HTTP
• Some experience with SQL (CREATE, ALTER, DROP, SELECT, LEFT_JOIN, INNER_JOIN, etc.)
• Familiarity with version control tools like Git (push, pull, commit)
• Familiarity with CSS concepts like the Box model, CSS Grid or Flexbox
• Currently pursuing a degree or program (example: bootcamp) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or relevant field to the role
• Ability to commit to a 12-16 week internship

Bonus Points

• Experience with Cloudflare Workers
• Familiarity with basic Typescript features like Interfaces and Type assertions
• Familiarity with a CSS framework like Bootstrap (Grid system, basic utility classes)
• Experience with Frontend build systems (npm or yarn scripts, webpack)
• Experience deploying code to environments (kubernetes, docker)

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Experience building, shipping products end to end, wearing different hats
• Contribute to discussions and documentation to communicate and arrive at the best technical design
• Experience working across different component boundaries, from frontend to backend, and even infrastructure layers

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’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.

Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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.

Athenian Project: We created 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.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.

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

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