Senior Systems Engineer: Developer Tooling & Productivity

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 74,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer - Developer Tooling to design and operate scalable, secure infrastructure that empowers product teams to release software efficiently. The role blends software engineering with operational responsibilities across multiple locations.

You will build developer productivity tooling, harden the platform, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce incidents and improve system reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience building and managing large-scale distributed systems or Linux production environments.
• Proficiency in a systems programming or scripting language (Go, Rust, C/C++, Python).
• Experience managing containerized workloads at scale (Kubernetes/Docker).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure testing strategies.
• Source control experience with branching/merging/rebasing.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex failures.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, resilient systems to support company growth.
• Develop developer productivity tooling for SysOps and engineers.
• Harden platform against security threats and resource contention.
• Improve development systems and practices.
• Optimize resource management (CPU, bandwidth, storage).
• Collaborate with application teams to architect robust systems.
• Drive initiatives to improve engineer happiness and productivity.
• Respond to and prevent incidents impacting core platforms.

Skills

Distributed systems

Systems programming (Go, Rust, C/C++,)

Kubernetes / Docker

CI/CD for infrastructure

Source control (branching, merging)

Troubleshooting & analysis

Tools

Go or Rust or C/C++

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Terraform/Ansible

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer - Developer Tooling to design and operate scalable, secure infrastructure that empowers product teams to release software efficiently. The role blends software engineering with operational responsibilities across multiple locations.

You will build developer productivity tooling, harden the platform, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce incidents and improve system reliability.