Senior API & SDK Platform Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a senior API engineer to join the API Experience team.

You will build and maintain SDKs, the Terraform provider, and the code-generation tooling that powers our APIs, while ensuring clear interfaces and stable upgrades across languages including Go, TypeScript, and Python. You’ll shape API versioning and governance, work with customers, mentor juniors, and own critical projects from design through delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building large-scale software applications.
• Deep Go expertise, with production software experience.
• Fluency across languages such as TypeScript and Python, and their library ergonomics.
• Experience shipping SDKs or client libraries, including testing, releases, dependency management, and backward compatibility.
• Experience contributing to Terraform provider development or maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain SDKs, Terraform provider, and the code generation tooling behind them.
• Develop API versioning and compatibility practices to evolve APIs without breaking users.
• Improve API governance with consistent schemas, clear standards, and release-quality checks.
• Support internal teams and work directly with customers to investigate issues and drive improvements.
• Own projects from design through release and ongoing maintenance.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Python

AI for engineering

API design

Tools

Terraform

SDKs

Code generation tooling

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a senior API engineer to join the API Experience team.

You will build and maintain SDKs, the Terraform provider, and the code-generation tooling that powers our APIs, while ensuring clear interfaces and stable upgrades across languages including Go, TypeScript, and Python. You’ll shape API versioning and governance, work with customers, mentor juniors, and own critical projects from design through delivery.