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Systems Engineer, SSL/TLS Team

Cloudflare· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin)Posted 1mo ago

About the role

Systems Engineer role on Cloudflare’s SSL/TLS Team focused on building services with RESTful APIs, datastores, and integration across multiple services to improve issuance, management, and deployment of TLS certificates at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build services with RESTful APIs and datastores using Go and other languages.
  • Write and maintain functional specifications for services.
  • Integrate multiple services via message queue systems and evaluate 3rd party and open source tools.
  • Design and implement alerts, write procedures for ops to handle alerts, or serve as escalation point for unresolved operational issues.
  • Read and understand code from a legacy codebase to migrate logic to a modern services architecture.
  • Review code of fellow engineers via pull requests.
  • Strive to build reliable, fault-tolerant systems that can operate at Cloudflare’s scale.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional experience building backend systems at a technology company
  • Experience writing production-quality code in Go (or other languages with a willingness to learn Go)
  • Proven experience building and operating distributed systems
  • Proficiency with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail
  • Track record of delivering well-tested, reliable code for production environments

Skills

Required:Backend developmentGoDistributed systemsUnix/LinuxDebugging
Nice to have:RESTful APIsPKI/TLSDocumentationSQL databasesMessage queues
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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