Senior Systems Engineer: SDKs, Terraform & Code Gen

Cloudflare, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own SDKs, Terraform provider, and code generation tooling. You will work across languages, ensure robust APIs, and collaborate with internal teams and customers to ship reliable solutions.

The role emphasizes high-quality interfaces, clear errors, and smooth upgrades. The ideal candidate has 5+ years building large-scale software, deep Go experience, and fluency in TS/Python.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building large-scale software applications.
• Deep Go expertise, with production software experience.
• Fluency across languages such as TypeScript and Python, and understanding library ergonomics.
• Experience building, maintaining, or contributing to a Terraform provider.
• Experience shipping SDKs or client libraries, including testing, releases, and backward compatibility.
• Strong opinions on API design and developer tooling, with practical tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our SDKs, Terraform provider, and code generation tooling.
• Develop API versioning and compatibility practices.
• Improve API governance: schemas, standards, and checks before release.
• Support internal teams and customers to investigate issues and drive improvements.
• Own projects from design through release and ongoing maintenance.

Skills

Go expertise

TypeScript

Python

API design

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform provider

Code generation tooling

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own SDKs, Terraform provider, and code generation tooling. You will work across languages, ensure robust APIs, and collaborate with internal teams and customers to ship reliable solutions.

The role emphasizes high-quality interfaces, clear errors, and smooth upgrades. The ideal candidate has 5+ years building large-scale software, deep Go experience, and fluency in TS/Python.