Software Engineer, Cloudflare
Enterprise Readiness
+ Equity plan
2 days a week in office
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity plan
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 Backend Experience: 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production applications
- You have a solid grasp of at least one typed language (like Go, PHP, Rust, or TypeScript) and are excited to master Go
- Systems Thinking: Experience working within distributed systems
- You understand core concepts like concurrency, data consistency, and how to write code that scales
- Full Stack Versatility: You are comfortable jumping into a React/TypeScript codebase to build UI components, but you enjoy the challenge of backend logic and API design
- Agentic AI Development: You are excited about exploring and adopting the rapidly advancing AI tooling in your workflows
- Data Proficiency: Strong experience with SQL and relational databases
- You understand schema design, how to write efficient queries, and the importance of data integrity
- Observability & Debugging: Experience using logging and monitoring tools (like Kibana, Sentry, or Grafana) to diagnose issues
- You believe that "tested and monitored" is the definition of "done."
- Cloud Fundamentals: Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- You understand how containers work and how to deploy services in a cloud-native environment
- You enjoy peer reviews, documentation, and participating in an on-call rotation. You take pride in the reliability of the features you ship
What the job involves
- 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
- As a Full Stack 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 our Organizations model - the new abstraction for our largest customers and partners to manage Cloudflare
- While this is a full-stack role, our roadmap is currently weighted toward backend development and systems implementation
- You will work closely with senior engineers to implement robust data models, build high-performance services in Go, and ensure our deployments are stable 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 partners and 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
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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