Cloudflare
Senior Systems Engineer, Identity & Access Management
Hybrid +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States - Experience
- 5-8 years building and operating production systems at scale.
- Visa sponsorship
- Offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Build and operate Cloudflare’s global-scale identity and access management systems for authenticating users and authorizing customer and internal service APIs.
What you'll do
- Design and build high-throughput, low-latency IAM capabilities and evolve authentication and authorization systems.
- Translate product and security requirements into APIs and technical specifications; collaborate with Product, Security, and UX.
- Own platform reliability, observability, and resilience, and use AI tools for development and debugging.
What they ask for
- Working knowledge of identity protocols and models, with production experience implementing identity protocols or authorization systems.
- Proficiency in languages such as Go and Typescript.
- Experience designing and building REST APIs.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis, including schema design, query optimization, caching, and consistency tradeoffs.
Nice to have
- Experience with credential and token lifecycle systems or service-to-service authentication at scale.
- Familiarity with Cloudflare developer platform technologies, or experience with production re-architecture and tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
Tools
OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, Go, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Redis
AI focus
Use AI tools throughout the workflow, including code generation and debugging, applying judgment about when to trust them.
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