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Cloudflare

Secures websites and runs apps on its network

Senior Software Engineer - Cloudflare for SaaS

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeAustin, TX, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional experience building backend systems at a technology company.
  • Experience writing production-quality code in Go or another language, with willingness to learn Go.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or high-scale services.
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across applications, data stores, and production environments.
  • Proficiency with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments.
  • A track record of delivering well-tested, reliable code and taking ownership of it in production.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate reliable backend services and APIs for managing customer domains and their configuration.
  • Evolve the control plane to support tens of millions of customer domains without sacrificing correctness, availability, or API performance.
  • Improve certificate and domain lifecycle workflows, including onboarding, validation, renewal, migration, and safe deletion.
  • Model ownership and shared state carefully so changes remain consistent across distributed services and configuration stores.
  • Build useful observability, alerts, and operational procedures, and participate in debugging and incident response.
  • Collaborate across engineering and product teams, document designs and tradeoffs, and review the work of fellow engineers.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing and evolving RESTful APIs used by external customers.
  • Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema and query design.
  • Understanding of distributed-systems concerns such as consistency, caching, concurrency, and failure recovery.
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems or migrating workflows to a service-oriented architecture.
  • Experience with observability tools and practices, including metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and service-level objectives.
  • Familiarity with public key infrastructure, transport layer security, certificate lifecycle management, ACME, DNS, or domain validation.
  • Experience with message queues, Kubernetes, or globally distributed configuration systems.
  • Interest in building intuitive product experiences for customers managing large fleets of domains.

About the Company

Cloudflare

Secures websites and runs apps on its network

Cloudflare operates a network that protects websites, delivers online content and runs applications closer to their users. Businesses connect websites and internal systems to its services to filter malicious traffic, control access and improve performance, with security and computing running on shared infrastructure. Developers combine application code, object storage and databases with the network used for content delivery and traffic protection. Cloudflare earns revenue from subscriptions and usage charges, with free plans for basic features and negotiated contracts for larger organizations. Cloudflare was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2009

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