Senior Systems Engineer — Developer Tooling & Automation

WebHosting; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable systems and developer productivity tools. The role blends software engineering with operations to support Cloudflare’s global services, including availability, performance, and security.

Available locations include Austin, Lisbon, and London, with compensation details varying by locale. The candidate will work on distributed systems, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation, contributing to a resilient

Qualifications

• Demonstrable professional experience building and managing large-scale distributed systems or Linux production environments.
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming or scripting language (e.g., Go, Rust, C/C++, Python) with a track record of writing clean, maintainable code.
• Experience managing containerized workloads at scale using Kubernetes, Docker, or similar orchestration platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies for infrastructure.
• Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a methodical approach to diagnosing complex system-level failures.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth.
• Design and build developer productivity tooling.
• Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues.
• Improve our development systems and practices.
• Improve the efficiency of managing resources such as CPU, bandwidth and storage.
• Work with application teams to understand their potential challenges and help them choose the best way to architect their systems.
• Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive.
• Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Rust

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Linux

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable systems and developer productivity tools. The role blends software engineering with operations to support Cloudflare’s global services, including availability, performance, and security.

Available locations include Austin, Lisbon, and London, with compensation details varying by locale. The candidate will work on distributed systems, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation, contributing to a resilient