Software Engineer, Cloudflare

AI Agents & Web Platforms

Salary not provided
TypeScript
JavaScript
Go
C++
Rust
Senior and Expert level
London
Cloudflare

Web performance and security platform

Open for applications

Cloudflare

Web performance and security platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Open for applications

Salary not provided
TypeScript
JavaScript
Go
C++
Rust
Senior and Expert level
London

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Company mission

Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.

Role

Who you are

  • You have a passion for meeting business needs while building technically innovative solutions, and you excel at balancing big-picture goals with technical detail
  • You are bold and persistent in your efforts to get your work across the finish line
  • You are excited to collaborate and communicate with engineers across Cloudflare, contributing at many layers of the stack
  • You take pride in shipping effective, reliable code
  • You are energized by learning new skills, tackling challenging debugging sessions, and sharing your knowledge with others
  • You believe that thorough documentation is just as important as delivering code
  • You want to join a team that upholds a culture of support, open and honest communication, and collaborative problem-solving
  • You are keen to explore emerging AI technologies and are excited by the opportunity to integrate AI agent platform primitives into our product suite
  • 5+ years of experience working with high-volume software applications, with a strong focus on the TypeScript programming language
  • Ability to scope, work on, and independently deliver initiatives
  • Knowledge of at least one modern, strongly-typed programming language such as Go, Rust, or C++
  • Strong written communication skills for contributing to both internal and public-facing technical documentation, as well as authoring blog posts
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and either object-oriented or functional design

Desirable

  • Understanding of the web and related technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, and JavaScript
  • Experience building reliable, high-performance distributed systems or working on cloud platforms
  • Familiarity with the Cloudflare Workers development platform
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining open source software projects
  • Exposure to AI frameworks or experience in shipping AI-driven platform primitives (e.g., developing or enhancing the Cloudflare Browser Rendering API)

What the job involves

  • In this role, you will join world-class engineers in shaping new products built entirely on Cloudflare’s global network, while continuing to nurture the growing impact of existing offerings—ensuring continual reliability, best-in-class performance, and the implementation of new features and functionality
  • You will be encouraged to bring your ideas forward and own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at every layer of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers
  • Write a design document outlining your strategy to tackle a specific challenge
  • Ship a new feature that integrates multiple technologies
  • Architect and deliver innovative API primitives for our AI agent platforms, including enhancements to the Cloudflare Browser Rendering API
  • Fix a bug affecting how our user experience renders
  • You can expect to work with a variety of languages and technologies including, but not limited to, TypeScript, Go, and Rust. We use Cloudflare Workers heavily and creatively. If applicable to ongoing projects, you will also help maintain the health and availability of services by participating in an on-call rotation

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16% employee growth in 12 months

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Company benefits

  • Minimum 8 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
  • 401(k) plans
  • Family planning and fertility program
  • Gym discounts
  • Commuter Benefits Program

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 around 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.

The cloud infrastructure market reached $53 billion in 2022. While the Big 3 (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) own 65% of the market, that still leaves billions of dollars left for companies such as Cloudflare. Its ambitious and successful work is likely to continue being a crucial feature of the web, but in 2023, placed it in the crosshairs of hackers looking to exploit its infrastructure. The beginning of 2024 saw Cloudflare vow to bolster its security and patch vulnerabilities.

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