Systems Engineer, Product Platform Tools
Cloudflare4 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services, REST APIs, and API gateway capabilities including routing, authentication, request handling, and upstream integration.
- Establish API contracts, access governance, and repeatable integration paths for applications onboarding to the internal platform.
- Partner with Support, Legal, Security, engineering, and non-technical teams to translate operational needs into maintainable platform features.
- Own and implement the platform’s authorization model, access controls, governance, and compliance requirements in code.
- Build observability and resilience into services, participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and lead post-incident reviews.
- Improve unfamiliar and legacy codebases, reduce operational toil, and maintain quality through code reviews and design documentation.
- Use AI coding tools to design, build, and debug software while rigorously reviewing their output.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience building and operating production backend services at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience building or operating an API gateway or similar edge/proxy layer and designing REST APIs, including routing, request lifecycles, authentication, and versioning.
- Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, RBAC, and policy-based access control such as OPA/Rego.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Redis, including schema design, query optimization, and caching strategies.
- Ability to collaborate with engineering, Security, Legal, and non-technical stakeholders and explain technical details clearly.
- Self-directed ownership, comfort with legacy code, and ability to resolve ambiguous problems across team boundaries.
- Preferred experience with internal tooling, admin consoles, or case-management systems for non-engineering users.
- Preferred exposure to security governance, compliance workflows, or access-control work with Security or Legal teams.
- Preferred familiarity with Cloudflare Workers, Access, Zero Trust, and Gateway.
- Preferred experience running containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes, using Terraform for infrastructure as code, and working with GitLab CI/CD.
- Preferred observability experience with distributed tracing, structured logging, and dashboards using Grafana, Kibana, or Jaeger.
Benefits
- Applicants reaching the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a Cloudflare office or hub.
- Any employment offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
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About Cloudflare
Cloudflare builds a global network that provides CDN, DDoS mitigation, DNS, Zero Trust security, and developer/edge computing tools for organizations of all sizes. It sells subscriptions to its cloud-based platform and usage-based services that protect and accelerate web sites, APIs, and corporate networks, plus serverless apps via Workers. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: NET).