Systems Engineer, Cloudflare

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems at scale
• Proficiency in Go. Our backend services and core platform are written in Go
• Comfort or willingness to work in TypeScript. Our control plane uses Cloudflare Workers (TypeScript), and the dashboard is a TypeScript application
• Experience designing and building REST APIs. You understand routing, authentication, request lifecycle, and how frontends consume distributed backends
• Comfort with distributed systems tradeoffs — data locality, replication, consistency models, and the latency implications of geographically distributed infrastructure. You don't need to have designed a sharded database, but you should be able to reason about why it matters that a customer's data is in Frankfurt and not Portland
• Ability to work across team boundaries. DRA spans nearly every engineering organization at Cloudflare. You'll need to navigate ambiguity, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and drive alignment with engineers you don't share a standup with

Desirable

• You'll join a small, high-autonomy team within this larger program
• Your primary focus is building the customer-facing and internal experience for DRA: how customers create regionalized accounts, how API requests route to regional control planes, how the dashboard adapts to per-account data residency, and how Cloudflare's internal teams provision and manage it all
• The nature of a cross-cutting program means you won't stay in one lane
• You'll integrate with teams building the regional storage orchestrator, the cryptographic key layer, and the data pipeline infrastructure
• The scope is wide, the team is small, and the decisions you make will shape how this system works at scale
• Regional API Routing - Build per-account API hostname generation and routing so that customer requests terminate in their chosen country, integrating with Cloudflare's Data Localization Suite and edge API gateway
• Dashboard Integration - Modify the Cloudflare dashboard so that API calls route through regional endpoints while surfacing clear regional indicators to the customer
• Account Creation & Provisioning - Build the account creation flow that captures country/region selection and integrates with the Control Plane Platform orchestrator to provision per-account regional storage and configuration
• Internal Tooling - Build admin tooling (provisioning integrations, billing shims, operational dashboards) so that support, sales, and finance teams can manage DRA accounts without violating residency constraints
• Cross-Team Integration - Work across the DRA program to integrate with regional storage, cryptographic key management, and logging infrastructure built by other teams
• Migration & Self-Service - Help design the path from manual provisioning (MVP) to dashboard self-service, and eventually tooling that migrates existing enterprise customers into DRA
• Greenfield at scale. You're building a new architectural capability from the ground up on one of the largest networks on the Internet
• Small team, big scope. This is a small, high-autonomy engineering team operating within a major cross-functional program. You'll have outsized ownership and direct influence over technical decisions, not a ticket queue
• Cross-cutting impact. DRA touches the control plane, data plane, logging pipeline, cryptographic infrastructure, and customer experience. This role is not siloed into one service or one layer of the stack
• Regulatory relevance. Data sovereignty is one of the defining infrastructure challenges of the next decade. You'll build deep expertise in a problem space with growing demand across every major cloud provider and regulated industry

• 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