Senior Systems Engineer, Cloudflare
Global Resource Management
2 days a week in office
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Professional Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in software development, building and operating mission-critical, high-scale distributed systems
- Programming Languages: Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or a similar modern systems language (e.g., Rust, Java, C++)
- Systems Design: Proven experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available services at cloud-scale
- Architectural Thinking: Deep understanding of concepts related to organization, dependency management, and resource orchestration in a large, multi-tenant environment
- Collaboration: Experience participating in a code review process and contributing thoughtful feedback to design specifications. Comfortable working across teams to identify shared challenges and propose platform-level solutions
- Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply — we’re looking for curious, driven engineers who want to make an impact on the platform that powers Cloudflare
Desirable
- Familiarity with Cloudflare's core technologies, such as edge computing or global networking
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and related technologies
What the job involves
- The Global Resource Management team is a small, focused group of engineers dedicated to driving organization and clarity across Cloudflare's platform
- We develop and maintain applications that live in the foundational platform to enable features that span all of Cloudflare’s resources
- The work we do is absolutely critical to enabling Cloudflare to scale its operations efficiently, reach new customers, and maintain the reliability our users expect
- Joining us means working on the core of Cloudflare's ability to operate and grow
- As a System Engineer on the Global Resource Management team, you'll be at the forefront of tackling our most challenging system architecture problems
- Solve Deep, Foundational Problems: Dive into complex, cross-cutting engineering challenges that benefit all Cloudflare products by creating organized, efficient, and well-managed applications
- Architect for Organization and Clarity: Design and make core architectural decisions focused on reducing fanout and simplifying system dependencies. The objective is to make platform adoption seamless and straightforward for product engineering teams
- Build Scalable Systems: Be responsible for proposing architectures, writing detailed specifications, and implementing high-quality, maintainable code to build scalable and highly available systems
- Drive Code Quality: Actively participate in thorough code reviews, provide constructive feedback on technical specifications and designs, and ensure all implementations adhere to best practices for reliability and security
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.
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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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