Senior Full Stack Engineer - Control Plane Product

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. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

Location: Austin, TX OR Remote US

About the department

Cloudflare’s Engineering Team builds and runs the software that handles about 10% of HTTP requests on the Internet today. We also build and run the internal tools that builds and runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world’s largest networks with data centers in 102 cities worldwide.

What you'll do

Cloudflare is looking for a senior full stack engineer on our control plan product platform to help us build and maintain the codebase that powers our Dashboard UI and internal service APIs. The ideal candidates will have experience working with large-scale applications and a deep knowledge of system designs. You must care deeply not only about the quality of your and the team's code, but also the customer experience and developer experience. We’re looking for highly motivated individuals that are excited to join a team and work with product owners and other software engineers to build scalable frameworks and tooling to create awesome developer experiences and improve developer productivity.

We are also strong believers in dog-fooding our own products. From cache configuration to Cloudflare Access to Cloudflare Workers, these are all tools in our frontend engineer's tool belt. 

Technologies we use include React, Javascript, TypeScript, Cypress, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Kafka, Quicksilver

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 5+ years of professional experience building and managing software applications at large scale.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Typescript
• Deep knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as Go, Rust, PHP with strong computer science fundamentals.
• Experience in designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Passion for Observability (experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana are a plus, but not required).
• Solid knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying possible failures in a large-scale distributed system.
• Experience with containers (Docker & Kubernetes)

 

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forw