About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin, Denver, Atlanta
About the Department
Cloudflare’s Engineering Team builds and runs the software that handles about 10% of HTTP requests on the Internet today. We also build and run the internal tools that builds and runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world’s largest networks with data centers in 102 cities worldwide.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will build the foundational services that enable the world’s largest organizations to run on Cloudflare. You will be responsible for the APIs, UIs, internal tooling, and admin platforms that help manage complex enterprise logic at scale. More specifically, there will be a heavy focus on scaling and extending Organizations - the new abstraction for our largest customers and partners to manage Cloudflare.
While this is a full-stack role, our roadmap for the coming year is weighted toward backend architecture and systems design**.** You will spend your time helping design our data models, architecting high-performance services in Go, optimizing our PostgreSQL layer, and ensuring our services are resilient within our Kubernetes ecosystem.
You won't just ship features; you will also own the "operational excellence" of your services. You’ll use tools like Jaeger, Sentry, and Kibana to troubleshoot complex distributed traces and ensure our platform remains highly available for our external and internal customers.
You will also rapidly expand your domain knowledge and ability to deliver change through AI tooling. Cloudflare is ramping up its support and infrastructure for AI development tools like OpenCode. Which, connected to everything safely possible with MCPs, is enabling engineers to have greater impact, faster than ever.
Core Technologies
- Backend: Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, PHP
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka
- Frontend: React, TypeScript
- Observability: Kibana, Elasticsearch, Jaeger, Sentry
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience
- Senior-Level Backend Expertise: 5+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade applications. Deep proficiency in a typed language like Go, PHP, Rust, or** Typescript **for APIs is a plus, but our primary language Go can be learned on the job.
- Systems Architecture: Proven experience designing distributed systems that are scalable, maintainable, and fault-tolerant. You understand how to manage state, concurrency, and data consistency.
- Pragmatic Full Stack Ability: While your work will be weighted toward the backend, you are comfortable navigating a React/TypeScript codebase to build or improve UI components.
- **Agentic AI Development: **You are excited about exploring and adopting the rapidly advancing AI tooling in your workflows.
- Databases: Experience with SQL, including schema design, query optimization, and serving globally distributed actors.
- Observability-First Mindset: You don't consider a feature "done" until it's monitored. Experience using distributed tracing (Jaeger), error tracking (Sentry), and log analysis (Kibana/Elasticsearch) to debug production issues.
- Cloud & Containers: Practical experience deploying and managing services in Kubernetes and Docker.
- Operational Ownership: You are comfortable participating in an on-call rotation and feel a sense of pride in maintaining high-uptime services.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Denver based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000-$231,000
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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 released1.1.1.1 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 ourprivacy 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.
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