Senior AI Gateway Systems Engineer (Edge Infra) Equity

Fdetimes; Austin, New York, San Francisco (TX, NY, CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Employee Stock Plan

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to build and operate the AI Gateway layer, enabling reliable, scalable inference across multiple providers and regions. You will work across stacks from distributed systems to developer workflows, dashboards, SDKs, and documentation.

You will help shape how developers build and run AI applications at Cloudflare, applying AI-native tools and automation to improve engineering productivity and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production systems.
• Experience designing or scaling distributed systems where latency, throughput, availability, and correctness matter.
• Strong developer tools taste and ability to design APIs, SDKs, dashboards, and docs.

Responsibilities

• Build core AI Gateway systems handling high‑volume inference across providers and Cloudflare’s network.
• Design and implement APIs, routing primitives, observability features, and developer workflows.
• Collaborate across product and infrastructure to cohesively deliver the AI platform.

Skills

Systems engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Observability

Latency optimization

Prototyping

Technical communication

Developer tools

Tools

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to build and operate the AI Gateway layer, enabling reliable, scalable inference across multiple providers and regions. You will work across stacks from distributed systems to developer workflows, dashboards, SDKs, and documentation.

You will help shape how developers build and run AI applications at Cloudflare, applying AI-native tools and automation to improve engineering productivity and reliability.