Software Engineer

Cloudflare • San Francisco, CA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Software Engineer to design, build, and scale internal platforms and software tools that power our infrastructure operations. You will treat operational challenges as software problems, developing clean services and developer platforms that make managing our global infrastructure reliable, fast, and effortless.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience as a Software Engineer building production software, with an emphasis on backend systems, APIs, or developer platform tools.
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Java, or Rust) with a track record of writing clean, testable, and maintainable code.
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, API architecture (REST, gRPC), and data structures applied to operational tooling.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and programmatically interacting with infrastructure APIs.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and system troubleshooting skills to diagnose issues across both application logic and underlying infrastructure.

Nice To Haves

• Experience writing software that interacts with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Familiarity with building robust CI/CD systems, automated integration testing, or continuous deployment tooling.
• Active contributions to open-source developer tools, CLI applications, or infrastructure platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect, write, and maintain scalable services, APIs, and tools that automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and runtime operations.
• Develop platform software and self-service tools that reduce operational toil, enabling engineering teams to deploy and manage resources safely and efficiently.
• Apply standard software engineering practices—including modular design, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD—to infrastructure codebases and tooling.
• Write observability frameworks, automated testing pipelines, and self-healing tools to maintain high availability and proactively catch operational failures.
• Partner closely with Security, Systems, and Product Engineering teams to integrate infrastructure software seamlessly across the application lifecycle.

Benefits

• Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
• 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.
• 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.
• Equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.
• Reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed