Cloudflare
Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare for SaaS
Hybrid +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of professional experience building backend systems at a technology company.
- Visa sponsorship
- An offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates backend services and APIs for Cloudflare for SaaS, scaling customer-domain management and improving lifecycle workflows and production reliability.
What you'll do
- Build and operate reliable services and APIs for customer domains and configuration, scaling the control plane to tens of millions of domains.
- Improve domain and certificate lifecycle workflows, distributed-state consistency, and system observability and reliability.
- Collaborate across engineering and product teams through design documentation, code review, debugging, and incident response.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of professional experience building backend systems at a technology company.
- Production-quality coding experience in Go or another language, with willingness to learn Go.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or high-scale services.
- Proficiency with modern Unix/Linux environments; strong production debugging and a record of delivering reliable, well-tested code.
Nice to have
- Experience designing RESTful APIs for external customers and working with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with observability, legacy-system modernization, PKI/TLS, ACME, DNS, message queues, Kubernetes, or globally distributed configuration systems.
Tools
Go, RESTful APIs, Unix/Linux, SQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, ACME, DNS
AI focus
The posting describes an AI-native culture that encourages using AI as a partner and leveraging AI to ship faster; no specific AI development work is stated.
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