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Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare for SaaS

Cloudflare· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)hybridPosted 2w ago

About the role

Cloudflare for SaaS lets SaaS providers offer their services on customer-branded domains, automating onboarding, ownership validation, certificate issuance/renewal, and safe deployment across Cloudflare’s global network. The role focuses on backend services and RESTful APIs in Go, modernizing legacy workflows, and improving reliability and scalability of production systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate reliable backend services and APIs for managing customer domains and their configuration.
  • Evolve the control plane to support tens of millions of customer domains without sacrificing correctness, availability, or API performance.
  • Improve certificate and domain lifecycle workflows, including onboarding, validation, renewal, migration, and safe deletion.
  • Model ownership and shared state carefully so changes remain consistent across distributed services and configuration stores.
  • Build useful observability, alerts, and operational procedures, and participate in debugging and incident response.
  • Collaborate across engineering and product teams, document designs and tradeoffs, and review the work of fellow engineers.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional experience building backend systems at a technology company.
  • Experience writing production-quality code in Go or another language, with a willingness to learn Go.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or high-scale services.
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across applications, data stores, and production environments.
  • Proficiency with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments.
  • A track record of delivering well-tested, reliable code and taking ownership of it in production.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentGoDistributed systemsUnix/LinuxDebugging
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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