engineering
Posted 4 hours agoSystems Engineer, Product Platform Tools
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Austin United States, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate backend services, infrastructure, APIs, and integrations that form the core of Cloudflare's internal support and admin platform, built to scale with the demands of a large, globally distributed organization. •
- Own and continuously improve the platform's security and authorization posture, partnering with the Security and Legal team to ensure access control policies, governance requirements, and compliance standards are correctly implemented and enforced at scale. •
Requirements
- As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
- 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. About the Role
- You'll need a deep curiosity for how Cloudflare works under the hood, a strong security and governance mindset, the ability to scale systems to meet the demands of a global organization, and the communication skills to bridge technical complexity with the real operational needs of diverse teams across the company. Responsibilities •
- Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience Must-Have Skills •
- experience building and operating production backend services at enterprise or large-scale organizations, with strong proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript. • Demonstrated
- experience in platform engineering, internal tooling, or support/admin systems — with direct
- experience supporting non-technical end users or customer-facing teams. •
- Strong understanding of authorization and authentication systems such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, OPA/Rego, role-base access control, policy based-access or similar and a security-first approach to system design. •
- Proven ability to work across organizational boundaries: comfortable engaging with engineering teams, Security, Legal, and non-technical operational stakeholders alike. •
- experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments — including cluster operations, resource management, networking, and debugging containerized workloads. • Strong database
- Prior exposure to security governance workflows, compliance tooling, or partnering closely with a dedicated Security or Legal team on access control requirements. •
- Familiarity with Cloudflare's product ecosystem (Workers, Access, Zero Trust, Gateway) as either a user or implementer. •
- Experience with observability tooling and practices — including distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics dashboards using tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Jaeger, or similar. •
- Experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and GitLab CI/CD for automated build, test, and deployment pipelines. •
- Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
- 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.
Experience
- 5+ years of professional
Benefits
- All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.
Contact
- Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Additional details
- 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.
- 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.
- The Product Platform Tools team builds and operates Cloudflare's internal support and admin platform - the foundation that customer-facing and operational teams across the company rely on to do their jobs.
- As a Systems Engineer on this team, you'll design and build the backend services, infrastructure, APIs, and integrations that power this platform at enterprise scale, working closely with both engineering teams and non-engineering stakeholders like Support, Legal, and Security (who depend on it daily).
- Partner with engineering teams across the company to onboard their support and admin applications onto the platform - understanding their
- requirements and ensuring smooth, well-governed, and scalable integration. •