Hardware Systems Engineer

📋 Description

• Work with software teams to validate bug fixes and assess performance of new firmware revisions
• Validate and deploy firmware updates to the fleet, monitoring the progress of the rollout for
• Work with server and component vendors to obtain, debug, and maintain the latest updates
• Work with our Site Reliability Engineering teams to triage hardware problem reports
• Support our Data Centre Engineering teams in resolving hardware issues
• Develop and maintain automation tools to update firmware on servers and components in Cloudflare’s

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science
• Desire to learn about the Cloudflare hardware used by 20% of all web sites
• Desire to learn how a diverse server fleet is managed at scale
• Desire to learn the tools Cloudflare uses to maintain and monitor our hardware
• Knowledge of bash and python and basic Linux task automation
• Knowledge of x86 server hardware including motherboards, CPUs, memory, storage and firmware updates

🎁 Benefits

• Familiarity with server hardware architecture
• Knowledge of debugging server hardware faults and the ability to engage with our sourcing team and
• Experience of managing large fleets comprising of thousands of servers
• Experience of observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and the ability to
• Experience with software development tools and processes such as git, Bitbucket and TeamCity and