As a Senior Systems Engineer, you'll address complex system architecture problems, design scalable systems, and ensure code quality within Cloudflare's platform.
Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin
About the Team
The Global Resource Management team is a small, focused group of engineers dedicated to driving organization and clarity across Cloudflare's platform. We develop and maintain applications that live in the foundational platform to enable features that span all of Cloudflare's resources. The work we do is absolutely critical to enabling Cloudflare to scale its operations efficiently, reach new customers, and maintain the reliability our users expect. Joining us means working on the core of Cloudflare's ability to operate and grow.
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:
Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply - we're looking for curious, driven engineers who want to make an impact on the platform that powers Cloudflare.
About the Team
The Global Resource Management team is a small, focused group of engineers dedicated to driving organization and clarity across Cloudflare's platform. We develop and maintain applications that live in the foundational platform to enable features that span all of Cloudflare's resources. The work we do is absolutely critical to enabling Cloudflare to scale its operations efficiently, reach new customers, and maintain the reliability our users expect. Joining us means working on the core of Cloudflare's ability to operate and grow.
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.
- Professional Experience: 3+ years of professional experience in software development, building and operating mission-critical, high-scale distributed systems.
- Programming Languages: Strong proficiency in Go (Golang)
- 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.
- Familiarity with Cloudflare's core technologies, such as edge computing or global networking.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and related technologies.
Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply - we're looking for curious, driven engineers who want to make an impact on the platform that powers Cloudflare.
Top Skills
C++
Go (Golang)
Java
Rust
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