The Software Engineer will build and maintain APIs, design large-scale systems, solve problems, and work closely with product teams, ensuring reliability and performance.
Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin
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
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
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
Financial Benefits
Time Off
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)
- 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.
- 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
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