Systems Engineer, Cloudflare

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems at scale
• Proficiency in Go
• Experience designing and building REST APIs. You understand routing, authentication, request lifecycle, and how to design APIs that other teams integrate with at scale
• Comfort with PostgreSQL in production including: schema design, migrations, query optimization, and understanding replication patterns
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and drive alignment with engineers you don't share a standup with
• Comfort with distributed systems tradeoffs; consistency models, eventual consistency, event-driven replication, and the operational implications of propagating state across multiple databases and edge infrastructure

Desirable

• You'll join the Global Resource Management (GRM) team, a small, high-autonomy team that builds the platform infrastructure other Cloudflare products build on top of. GRM is the centralized orchestration layer for cross-cutting resource operations. If a feature needs to work across every product (tagging, sharing, universal resource identity), GRM builds and operates it
• Your primary focus is building and operating the microservices and REST APIs that power the tag-api platform. You'll design and implement API endpoints, define data models, write migrations, and build the service-layer logic that handles validation, quota enforcement, and concurrency control. The work is hands-on backend engineering: building reliable, well-tested web services that other teams depend on
• A significant part of the role is scaling the platform to support new resource types and higher-throughput use cases. This includes building bulk operations APIs that handle thousands of resources per request while considering consistency, latency, and failure-mode tradeoffs
• GRM is a platform team, and this role is horizontal by nature. The services you build are consumed by teams across Cloudflare — Workers, Zero Trust, DNS, Access, Billing — and you'll work with those teams to onboard their resources, integrate with their APIs, and ensure the platform scales with their needs. The scope is wide, the team is small, and the systems you build will be foundational to how Cloudflare manages resources at scale
• Platform-level impact. You're building and shaping infrastructure that every Cloudflare product depends on
• Small team, big scope. GRM is a small, high-autonomy team operating on a platform-wide mandate. You'll have outsized ownership and direct influence over technical decisions, not a ticket queue
• Cross-cutting by design. This role is inherently horizontal. You'll integrate with teams across the entire company; Workers, Zero Trust, DNS, Access, Billing, IAM, and understand how Cloudflare works end-to-end in a way that few roles offer
• Greenfield systems work. Many projects are being designed and built now. You're not maintaining legacy systems, you're defining the patterns that the rest of the platform will adopt

• 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