As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain backend APIs, collaborate with product teams, and ensure high performance of software applications.
Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin, TX | Denver, CO | Atlanta, GA | Toronto, ON | London, UK
About Us
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
What you'll do
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
Cloudflare is looking for a backend engineer on our control plane product platform to help us build our customer APIs and our internal service APIs. This is a role for engineers that are familiar with standard backend architecture, and capable in database design and interaction. Our API platform is under constant load and scrutiny, so experience and commitment to easily understood and tested code is also a key part of the role. Your ability to visualize the flow of data through a complex application is critical to your success, and to the team's. You will be working closely with the product team to understand and document the functional needs of their product requirements, developing new code to solve new problems, as well as maintaining existing code to squash bugs. Our tech stack includes services built using Go, Redis, Postgres, and Cloudflare products (e.g. Workers). We are looking for proficiency in RESTful API design, OpenAPI, Terraform, relational databases (SQL), and modern containerized deployment practices.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
About Us
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
What you'll do
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
Cloudflare is looking for a backend engineer on our control plane product platform to help us build our customer APIs and our internal service APIs. This is a role for engineers that are familiar with standard backend architecture, and capable in database design and interaction. Our API platform is under constant load and scrutiny, so experience and commitment to easily understood and tested code is also a key part of the role. Your ability to visualize the flow of data through a complex application is critical to your success, and to the team's. You will be working closely with the product team to understand and document the functional needs of their product requirements, developing new code to solve new problems, as well as maintaining existing code to squash bugs. Our tech stack includes services built using Go, Redis, Postgres, and Cloudflare products (e.g. Workers). We are looking for proficiency in RESTful API design, OpenAPI, Terraform, relational databases (SQL), and modern containerized deployment practices.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 7-10 years of professional experience building and managing software applications at large scale.
- Has managed or maintained Terraform providers (not just used them).
- Strong OpenAPI experience.
- Strong API design principles.
- Deep knowledge of Go with strong computer science fundamentals is a must.
- Experience in designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience designing, implementing, and documenting customer-facing APIs.
- Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying possible failures in a large-scale distributed system.
- Experience with containers (Docker & Kubernetes)
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $196,000
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Top Skills
Docker
Go
Kubernetes
Openapi
Postgres
Redis
Restful Api
SQL
Terraform
Cloudflare Denver, Colorado, USA Office
Denver, Colorado, United States, 80014
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