Software Engineer, Identity Access Management

Cloudflare, Inc.; San Francisco, California, Boston (CA, MO, MA); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company on a mission to enhance the Internet. As a full stack software engineer, you'll work on a high-impact control plane product platform, developing and maintaining APIs that power customer and internal services. This role offers the chance to work with a modern tech stack, including Go and PostgreSQL, while collaborating with a diverse team committed to innovation and inclusivity. You'll tackle complex challenges in a supportive environment that values your growth and contributions.

Benefits

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible paid time off

On-demand mental health support

Global Travel Medical Insurance

Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software applications at scale.
• Deep knowledge of a modern programming language.
• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the codebase for customer and internal APIs.
• Work closely with the product team to document functional needs.
• Debug and optimize large-scale distributed systems.

Skills

Go

Rust

JavaScript

PHP

SQL

API Design

Distributed Systems

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Kibana

Job description

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin | Denver | Washington D.C. | Atlanta | London | Lisbon

About the department

Cloudflare's Engineering Team builds and runs the software that handles large volume of HTTP requests on the Internet today. We also build and run the internal tools that builds and runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world's largest networks with data centers in 102 cities worldwide.

What you'll do

Cloudflare is looking for a full stack software engineer on our control plane product platform to help us build and maintain the codebase that powers both our customer APIs as well as internal service APIs. This is a role for engineers that are familiar with standard backend architecture, and capable in database design and interaction. Our API platform is under constant load and scrutiny, so experience and commitment to easily understood and test code is also a key part of the role. Your ability to visualize the flow of data through a complex application is critical to your success, and to the team's. You will be working closely with the product team to understand and document the functional needs of their product requirements, developing new code to solve new problems, as well as maintaining existing code to squash bugs. Our tech stack includes services built using Go, Redis, Postgres, and Cloudflare products (e.g. Workers). We are looking for proficiency in RESTful API design, relational databases (SQL), and modern containerized deployment practices.

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 5+ years of professional experience building and managing software applications at large scale.


• Deep knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as Go, Rust, JavaScript, PHP with strong computer science fundamentals.


• Experience in designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.


• Passion for Observability (experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana are a plus, but not required).


• Experience designing, implementing, and documenting customer-facing APIs are a huge plus.


• Solid knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL.


• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying possible failures in a large-scale distributed system.


• Experience with containers (Docker & Kubernetes)

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

• 5+ years of professional experience building and managing software applications at scale.


• Deep knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as Go, Rust, JavaScript, PHP with strong computer science fundamentals.


• Experience in designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.


• Experience designing, implementing, and documenting customer-facing APIs.


• Solid knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL.


• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying possible failures in a large-scale distributed system.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Passion for Observability (experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana are a plus, but not required).


• Experience with deploying containerized applications (Docker & Kubernetes).


• Strong history of delivering full stack applications in partnership with product owners and user experience designers.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000

Equity

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

Benefits

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

• Medical/Rx Insurance


• Dental Insurance


• Vision Insurance


• Flexible Spending Accounts


• Commuter Spending Accounts


• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits


• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program


• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance


• Life & Accident Insurance


• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan


• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave


• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

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.

Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!

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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