Senior Systems Engineer – Hybrid

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 ·United States, Austin, TX / New York, NY

Job Description

What You’ll Do

As a System Engineer on the Global Resource Management team, you’ll be at the forefront of tackling our most challenging system architecture problems:

Solve Deep, Foundational Problems: Dive into complex, cross-cutting engineering challenges that benefit all Cloudflare products by creating organized, efficient, and well-managed applications.

Architect for Organization and Clarity: Design and make core architectural decisions focused on reducing fanout and simplifying system dependencies. The objective is to make platform adoption seamless and straightforward for product engineering teams.

Build Scalable Systems: Be responsible for proposing architectures, writing detailed specifications, and implementing high-quality, maintainable code to build scalable and highly available systems.

Drive Code Quality: Actively participate in thorough code reviews, provide constructive feedback on technical specifications and designs, and ensure all implementations adhere to best practices for reliability and security.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

Professional Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in software development, building and operating mission-critical, high-scale distributed systems.

Programming Languages: Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or a similar modern systems language.

Systems Design: Proven experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available services at cloud-scale.

Architectural Thinking: Understanding of concepts related to organization, dependency management, and resource orchestration in a large, multi-tenant environment.

Collaboration: Experience participating in a code review process and contributing thoughtful feedback to design specifications. Comfortable working across teams to identify shared challenges and propose platform-level solutions.

Compensation Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

Time Off

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo : Since 2014, we’ve equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers–at no cost.

Athenian Project : In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we’ve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use – it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal – we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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