Senior Systems Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Systems Engineer will join Cloudflare’s Global Resource Management team, a small group responsible for developing and maintaining foundational platform applications that support features across Cloudflare’s resources. The team’s work helps Cloudflare scale operations, reach new customers, and maintain reliability. The role focuses on solving complex, cross-cutting system architecture challenges that benefit Cloudflare products. The engineer will make architectural decisions to improve organization, reduce fanout, simplify dependencies, and make platform adoption easier for product engineering teams. They will propose architectures, write detailed specifications, and implement maintainable, high-quality software for scalable and highly available systems. They will also participate in code reviews and provide feedback on technical specifications and designs, with attention to reliability and security.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience building and operating mission-critical, high-scale distributed systems.
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or a similar modern systems language.
- Proven 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 providing thoughtful feedback on design specifications.
- Comfort working across teams to identify shared challenges and propose platform-level solutions.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Cloudflare’s core technologies, such as edge computing or global networking.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and related technologies.
Responsibilities
- Solve complex, foundational engineering challenges that benefit Cloudflare products.
- Design core architectures that improve organization, reduce fanout, and simplify system dependencies.
- Make platform adoption seamless and straightforward for product engineering teams.
- Propose architectures, write detailed specifications, and implement high-quality, maintainable code for scalable and highly available systems.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback on technical specifications and designs.
- Ensure implementations follow best practices for reliability and security.
- Work across teams to identify shared challenges and propose platform-level solutions.
Benefits
- Medical/Rx insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Commuter spending accounts
- Fertility and family-forming benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global travel medical insurance
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life and accident insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Employee stock participation plan
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
- Equity plan participation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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