alt Hacker NewsFair question. Location primarily ( nothing in France ), and I’m not sure how ‘we’re looking for people who enjoy doing that kind of thing’( I very much do ) relates to the actual job offers, ie what job offer should I actually apply to.
My background is not networking ( it’s math then hpc then broader stuff ) but I keep stumbling on similar problems ( including a beautiful one related to intel NICs a few years ago which led be into a rabbit hole of ebpf and kernel network layer and which surfaced later on the cloudflare blog), and the only tech company with which this seems to be a regular occurrence is cloudflare. Their space is a bit unknown to me so I guess I’m having a hard time projecting something onto the job offers.
I’d happily chat to someone working for cloudflare though - I guess this would help me understand what it is that actually happens over there. I guess I’m a bit intimidated by this unknown yet really good looking world :-)
I've interned at Cloudflare back in 2020 and had a great time- would highly recommend!
Can't speak to the locations but the stuff you're interested/experienced in seems extremely likely to overlap with what they do. They do a lot of very deep technical things in all kinds of areas.
my recommendation if you want to talk to someone about it: search github/twitter/linkedin for ppl who work there on stuff you like, and just send them a message and ask for a 20 minute call!
have done it plenty of times, has always been extremely positive