Software Engineer

Cloudflare • San Francisco, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Software Engineer, you will be part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining the systems that manage Cloudflare’s infrastructure at scale. You will work on expanding and evolving the suite of automations that allow our Infrastructure Operations partners to provision, expand, repair, and decommission our rapidly growing fleet of servers. Your work will contribute to an increasingly autonomous system that reduces manual effort and supports Cloudflare’s growth. You will play a key role in the development of the infrastructure that powers Cloudflare’s scale. You will collaborate with the team to understand business needs and develop technical solutions. You will thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and work closely with internal customers to understand their requirements. In this role, AI is a tool for strategic mastery. You will be expected to integrate AI into your workflow—utilizing LLMs and predictive analytics to synthesize partner intelligence, monitor regulatory shifts, and automate regional reporting. This allows you to maintain high-level diplomacy while scaling your impact across the broader APAC and EMEA regions.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of hands-on software development experience on meaningfully complex systems.
• Excellent proficiency in one of Python, Go, or Rust, with deep understanding of the language and its best practices.
• Experience working with Linux systems
• Basic networking knowledge, like VLAN, Routing, DNS, etc
• Experience building both backend systems and frontend widgets.
• Ability to contribute to planning, development, and execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
• Experience implementing tools, processes, internal instrumentation, and methodologies.
• Comfortable working on projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles.
• Excellent verbal and written English language skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with DCIM, CMDB, IPAM, and other Data Center and Asset Lifecycle Management tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining the systems that manage Cloudflare’s infrastructure at scale.
• Expanding and evolving the suite of automations for provisioning, expanding, repairing, and decommissioning servers.
• Contributing to an increasingly autonomous system that reduces manual effort and supports Cloudflare’s growth.
• Developing the infrastructure that powers Cloudflare’s scale.
• Collaborating with the team to understand business needs and develop technical solutions.
• Working closely with internal customers to understand their requirements.
• Integrating AI into your workflow using LLMs and predictive analytics to synthesize partner intelligence, monitor regulatory shifts, and automate regional reporting.

Benefits

• Project Galileo: equipping journalism and civil society organizations with tools to defend against attacks.
• Athenian Project: ensuring state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free access to election information and voter registration.
• 1.1.1.1: a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver.

What This Job Offers

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