Software Engineer, Cloudflare
Workers Deploy & Config
Web performance and security platform
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Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for engineers who are obsessed with the developer experience and thrive on solving large-scale problems with a track record to prove it
- If you care as much about the quality of the user's experience as you do about the quality of your code, and you want to join a high-impact, fast-growing team helping to build a better Internet, we want to talk to you
- Strong experience using Go
- Experience with Javascript and Typescript
- Experience with metrics and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience with SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar deployment tools
- Experience with distributed systems
- Proven ability to drive projects independently, from concept to implementation – gathering requirements, writing technical specifications, implementing, testing, and releasing
- Familiarity with implementing and consuming RESTful APIs
Desirable
- Experience with C++ or Rust
- Experience scaling systems to meet increasing performance and usability demands
- Experience working on a control and/or data plane
- Experience using Cloudflare Workers or Pages
- Experience working in frontend frameworks such as React
- Experience managing interns or mentoring junior engineers
- Product mindset and comfortable talking to customers and partners
- Familiarity with GraphQL
- Familiarity with RPC
What the job involves
- Join the Workers Deploy & Config team, the engine behind Cloudflare's unique serverless, edge-computing developer platform
- This isn't just another backend role; you'll be building the critical, large-scale systems that empower developers worldwide to deploy everything - from a personal static site to full-stack applications serving millions of users
- In fact, you'll be building the very foundation that the rest of our developer platform—from Pages to R2—is built upon
- You will tackle the complex challenges of distributed systems and high-traffic APIs every single day
- Your mission? To build and scale the platform that lets customers upload, configure, and manage their Workers, ensuring it's incredibly fast, extremely resilient, and scales effortlessly
- You’ll drive projects from the initial idea to global release, delivering solutions at every layer of the stack
- You’ll get to master a diverse and modern tech stack, writing high-performance Go, architecting APIs, optimizing storage interactions, building Workers with JavaScript/TypeScript, and managing it all on Kubernetes
- This role is about solving some of the most challenging problems in large scale, distributed systems
- You'll be making a massive, direct impact on the broader developer community
- Own the core architecture of the Workers control plane, the system that deploys and configures millions of applications globally
- Proactively identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, re-architecting critical services to handle exponential growth
- Design and implement resilient database schemas and read/write patterns built to support exponential platform growth and long-term usage
- Evolve our services into a true developer platform, building the foundational capabilities that unlock future products
- Obsess over the developer experience, with a relentless focus on reducing API latency and increasing API availability
- Own the reliability of one of Cloudflare’s most critical, customer-facing systems
- Take pride in production ownership by participating in an on-call rotation to ensure our platform is always on
- Partner directly with Product Managers and customers to translate complex problems into simple, elegant, and scalable solutions
- Lead technical design from the ground up, collaborating with a brilliant, globally-distributed team of engineers
- Act as a mentor and knowledge-sharer, leveling up the entire team
- Constantly research, prototype, and introduce cutting-edge technologies to solve new classes of problems
Our take
Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with over 25 million global internet properties on its network.
Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.
This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.
And impressive third-quarter 2025 results show strong momentum, with revenue rising to $562 million from $430 million a year earlier. The company also raised its full-year guidance, underscoring confidence in continued growth. As demand for secure, cloud-based infrastructure keeps growing, Cloudflare's expanding platform and improving efficiency leave it well positioned to capture further gains in a rapidly growing market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Take-what-you-need vacation: We encourage employees to find a comfortable work-life balance by taking as many days off as they need while still being able to perform their jobs satisfactorily. (We really mean it!)
- Paid maternity & paternity leave: Our global parental leave policy allows up to sixteen paid weeks of bonding leave time for all qualifying new parents.
- Employee benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pension plans in accordance with the market practice in our locations.
- Commuter program: We are flexible about where we work and value connecting at the office. Our commuter benefits program is in place to support team members' commute to work via public transportation without the extra cost burden.
- Wellbeing: Global offerings that provide mental health, childcare and family forming support to our employees across our offices.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Lee Holloway
(Co-Founder & Lead Engineer)Lee began their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.
Michelle Zatlyn
(Co-Founder, President & Co-Chair)Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.
Matthew Prince
(Co-Founder & CEO)Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare in 2009, where he has served as CEO ever since.
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