Machine Learning Engineer

Austin, TX, United States

About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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!

About the department

The BI team builds and operates the cloud data analytics platform for Cloudflare. We are responsible for building a centralized cloud data analytics platform using open source technologies that will be used by our internal Business Partners and Machine Learning teams. Our goal is to democratize data, support Cloudflare’s critical business needs, provide reporting and analytics self-service tools to fuel existing and new business critical initiatives.

What you'll do

Deploy, manage & support ML Applications & Services on Kubernetes

Understand MLOps landscape i.e tooling, tech stack, source systems etc. and work on introducing new tools and solutions for ML & AI initiatives.

Partner and align with Data Scientists, Data Engineers and internal teams to deliver ML solutions in a globally distributed environment.

Lead development of efficiencies to boost model training to deployment lead times

Understand business/product strategy and high-level roadmap and align analysis efforts to enable them with data insights and help achieve their strategic goals.

Leverage Cloudflare products and services for AI & ML initiatives and applications

Use software engineering best practices to publish model scores/insights/learnings at scale within the company.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

M.S or Ph.D in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields.

Minimum 3 years of ML Engineering experience with proven industry experience in a large scale environment (PBs scale & globally distributed teams)

Strong experience in scientific computing using Python with Scikit-Learn & PyTorch or Tensorflow.

Strong experience working with Docker & Kubernetes to build and deploy applications and systems.

Experience working with ML Platform tools (AirFlow, Argo Workflows, ArgoCD) preferred.

Experience working with Data Scientists to deploy Machine Learning applications systems for training, inference and observability.

Experience with Full-stack Web technologies and languages (FastAPI, Streamlit, JavaScript/TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, etc.) preferred.

Experience with Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (or any other public cloud equivalent) etc.

Experience working with CI/CD systems, version control (Git, Bitbucket, etc.) and DevOps tools.

Experience with Databases such as BigQuery, Postgres, SQLite and ETL/ELT practices

Strong cross-functional collaboration experience with data engineering and data analysts teams within the function.

Proficiency in large language models and the frameworks necessary for implementing GenAI applications, such as chatbots and related use cases.

Strong communication and presentation skills catered to different audiences within the company.

Capable of working closely with business, engineering, and product teams to ensure data initiatives are aligned with business needs.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $156,000 - $190,000

For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $176,000 - $215,000

For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $185,000 - $226,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Commuter Spending Accounts

Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program

Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

Short and Long Term Disability Insurance

Life & Accident Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave

Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

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.

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