Senior Cloud Systems Engineer (Go) – Scalable Architecture

WebHosting; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Benefits package

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a System Engineer on the Global Resource Management team in the United States. You will tackle deep architectural challenges, design scalable, highly available services, and drive code quality through rigorous reviews.

With 5+ years of experience and strong Go skills, you will influence platform design, reduce fanout, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable infrastructure at cloud scale. Equity benefits apply; candidates in the US may be located in multiple hubs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development, building and operating mission-critical, high-scale distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or a similar modern systems language.
• Proven experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available services at cloud-scale.
• Understanding of concepts related to organization, dependency management, and resource orchestration in a large, multi-tenant environment.
• Experience participating in a code review process and contributing thoughtful feedback to design specifications.

Responsibilities

• Solve Deep, Foundational Problems: tackle cross-cutting engineering challenges that benefit all products by creating organized, efficient, and well-managed applications.
• Architect for Organization and Clarity: design core architectural decisions to reduce fanout and simplify dependencies, making platform adoption seamless for product engineering teams.
• Build Scalable Systems: propose architectures, write detailed specifications, and implement high-quality, maintainable code for scalable, highly available systems.
• Drive Code Quality: participate in code reviews, provide feedback on specifications and designs, and ensure implementations meet reliability and security best practices.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Systems design

Code reviews

Collaboration

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a System Engineer on the Global Resource Management team in the United States. You will tackle deep architectural challenges, design scalable, highly available services, and drive code quality through rigorous reviews.

With 5+ years of experience and strong Go skills, you will influence platform design, reduce fanout, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable infrastructure at cloud scale. Equity benefits apply; candidates in the US may be located in multiple hubs.