Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Cloudflare; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to join their team in Toronto, ON. The role involves building and managing robust customer APIs with a focus on performance and best practices in backend engineering. Applicants should have extensive experience in backend architecture, database design, and API development, ideally with a strong foundation in Go. Cloudflare is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive working environment, making this a great opportunity for skilled individuals looking to impact the tech landscape.

Benefits

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Equity Participation

Flexible paid time off

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of professional experience in large-scale software application development.
• Experience in API design and architecture of customer-facing APIs.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, with an ability to debug and optimize systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop customer APIs and internal service APIs for Cloudflare's platform.
• Maintain existing code, solve new problems, and improve performance.
• Collaborate with product teams to gather and document requirements.

Skills

Proficiency in RESTful API design

Strong OpenAPI experience

Database design and interaction

Knowledge of Go

Familiarity with containers (Docker & Kubernetes)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Postgres

Redis

Job description

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About Us

About Us

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!

Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin, TX | Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Toronto, ON | London, UK

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.

What You'll Do

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

Cloudflare is looking for a backend engineer on our control plane product platform to help us build our customer APIs and our internal service APIs. This is a role for engineers that are familiar with standard backend architecture, and capable in database design and interaction. Our API platform is under constant load and scrutiny, so experience and commitment to easily understood and tested code is also a key part of the role. Your ability to visualize the flow of data through a complex application is critical to your success, and to the team’s. You will be working closely with the product team to understand and document the functional needs of their product requirements, developing new code to solve new problems, as well as maintaining existing code to squash bugs. Our tech stack includes services built using Go, Redis, Postgres, and Cloudflare products (e.g. Workers). We are looking for proficiency in RESTful API design, OpenAPI, Terraform, relational databases (SQL), and modern containerized deployment practices.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• 7-10 years of professional experience building and managing software applications at large scale.
• Has managed or maintained Terraform providers (not just used them).
• Strong OpenAPI experience.
• Strong API design principles.
• Deep knowledge of Go with strong computer science fundamentals is a must.
• Experience in designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience designing, implementing, and documenting customer-facing APIs.
• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying possible failures in a large-scale distributed system.
• Experience with containers (Docker & Kubernetes)
  
  
  

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $196,000
  
  
  

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: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries 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: In 2017, we created the 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. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

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.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at [e-mail] or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

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Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

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  IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet, and Computer and Network Security

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