Technical Support Engineer - CDN/Developer Focused
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!
Job Locations: Remote, Mexico City, MX To the attention of candidates (Mexico City): This role requires full time work over the Weekends. Candidates should be comfortable working with a “Sun-Thursday” or “Tues-Sat” 5-day working week schedule. Candidates MUST have right-to-work in Mexico. Visa sponsorship is NOT provided for this position. About the DepartmentThe Customer Support Team solves complicated problems and answers technical inquiries via phone, email, chat, and social media. Whether it is a Wordpress blogger using our services for free or a global Enterprise business with petabytes of web traffic, our team is always eager to assist. We are the eyes and ears of Cloudflare, acting as the real-time voice of the customer to help communicate their needs and real-world use cases back to the rest of the company - to help build a better service and future product development.
What You’ll DoDo you love solving complex problems and interacting with people? Are you passionate about helping customers and a standout colleague? Cloudflare is seeking a Technical Customer Support Engineer to join our team. You will work with customers on a variety of technical support issues as well as the Technical Operations team that is responsible for running our global distributed network. This is a position where you will learn the inner workings of Cloudflare's architecture and gain a deeper understanding of Internet technologies. You will focus on providing support for our Content Delivery products: Workers, Speed, Images, Stream, CDN and others.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience- You have worked as part of a team in a customer-facing role and want to progress your career as a support professional
- You have solved issues from the network to the application layer
- You have resolved front-end dashboard and API issues
- You have analyzed and tuned website performance issues
- You understand Javascript or other scripting languages
- You have developed or maintained internet applications
- You have experience with video encoding and streaming solutions
- You have worked with SQLite or other database servers
- You are comfortable communicating through various support channels and always put the customer first
- You are a motivated self-starter and always looking to expand your existing skill set
- You are fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, German, Japanese, French or Mandarin
- You are familiar with Cloudflare and have a site actively using our platform
- You have a solid grasp of problem-solving with command line tools (curl/dig/traceroute/tcpdump) and developer tools (git/wrangler/npm)
- You are familiar with Nginx, Apache, IIS or any other web servers
- You are committed to gaining a deeper understanding of the following technologies: DNS / SSL / CDN - Cache / Cloudflare Workers
- You have experience with Cloudflare Workers
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!
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