Cloudflare
Systems Engineer, SSL/TLS Team
Hybrid +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of professional backend-systems experience 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
Build and operate reliable, fault-tolerant services that issue, manage, and deploy TLS certificates for Cloudflare customers.
What you'll do
- Develop services with RESTful APIs and datastores; integrate services using message queues and maintain functional specifications.
- Design alerts and operational procedures, troubleshoot escalated issues, and evaluate third-party and open-source tools.
- Migrate logic from legacy code into modern services and review colleagues’ code.
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.
- Proven experience building and operating distributed systems.
- Proficiency with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments.
Nice to have
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and full-stack applications; familiarity with PKI/TLS and certificate management.
- Experience with technical documentation, SQL and relational databases, distributed-systems constraints, or message queues.
Tools
Go, RESTful APIs, Unix/Linux, SQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ
AI focus
The posting describes an AI-curious, AI-native culture that uses AI as a partner and to ship faster, but does not specify AI work as a responsibility of this role.
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