Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
- 5+ years of experience building large-scale software applications.
- Deep Go expertise, with experience building and maintaining production software.
- Fluency across languages such as TypeScript and Python, and an understanding of what makes a library feel natural in each.
- Experience building, maintaining, or contributing to a Terraform provider.
- Experience shipping SDKs or client libraries, including testing, releases, dependency management, and backward compatibility.
- Well-reasoned opinions about API design and developer tooling, paired with the ability to listen, explain tradeoffs, and make practical decisions.
- Strong technical judgment built through experience: you can untangle complex problems, set a clear direction, and lead projects from early design through delivery.
- A track record of helping junior engineers grow through thoughtful feedback, mentoring, and opportunities to take ownership.
- Experience using AI and automation to improve engineering workflows, with the judgment to identify where they add value and verify the quality of their output.
Bonus Points
- Experience versioning an API, building schema-driven code generators, or establishing API governance is especially valuable. We’re interested in what you’ve built, how you’ve maintained it, and what you’ve learned from the people using it.
- Experience managing containerized workloads at scale using Kubernetes, Docker, or similar orchestration platforms.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies for infrastructure.
- Contributions to open-source systems software projects or active participation in the broader systems engineering community.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
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. Here’s the deal - 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.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.