Senior Systems Engineer – Scalable Cloud Platforms

Cloudflare, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Health insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to tackle deep, cross-cutting engineering challenges and build scalable, reliable platforms.

You will design architecture, reduce fanout, review code, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality system solutions powering Cloudflare's globally distributed services. 5+ years of experience and Go proficiency are preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development, building and operating mission-critical, high-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Go (Golang) or a similar modern systems language.
• Experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available services at cloud scale.
• Understanding of organization, dependency management, and resource orchestration in a large, multi-tenant environment.
• Experience participating in code reviews and cross-team collaboration to propose platform-level solutions.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Build Scalable Systems: Propose architectures, write detailed specifications, and implement high-quality, maintainable code to build scalable and highly available systems.
• Drive Code Quality: Actively participate in thorough code reviews and ensure implementations adhere to best practices for reliability and security.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Systems design

Architectural thinking

Code reviews

Collaboration

Distributed systems

Tools

IaC tools

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to tackle deep, cross-cutting engineering challenges and build scalable, reliable platforms.

You will design architecture, reduce fanout, review code, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality system solutions powering Cloudflare's globally distributed services. 5+ years of experience and Go proficiency are preferred.