Senior Backend Engineer, SaaS Platform (Go)

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Cloudflare for SaaS in Austin, TX. You will design, build, and operate backend services and RESTful APIs, primarily in Go, helping scale customer domains and their configuration across our global network.

You will work with product managers and engineers, review code, and improve observability, reliability, and performance across distributed systems. A strong background in Go and Unix/Linux is required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience building backend systems at a technology company.
• Experience writing production-quality code in Go or another language, with a 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.

Skills

Backend systems

Go language

Distributed systems

Unix/Linux

Production ownership

Written communication

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

RESTful APIs

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Cloudflare for SaaS in Austin, TX. You will design, build, and operate backend services and RESTful APIs, primarily in Go, helping scale customer domains and their configuration across our global network.

You will work with product managers and engineers, review code, and improve observability, reliability, and performance across distributed systems. A strong background in Go and Unix/Linux is required.