Software Engineer, Identity Access Management

Position Title: Software Engineer, Identity Access Management

Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds 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 e join us!

Cloudflare’s Engineering Team builds and runs the software that handles large volume 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 worlds largest networks with data centers in 102 cities worldwide.

Cloudflare is looking for a full stack software engineer on our control plane product platform to help us build and maintain the codebase that powers both our customer APIs as well as 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 test 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 teams. 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, relational databases (SQL), and modern containerized deployment practices.

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

• 5+ years of professional experience building and managing software applications at large scale.
• Deep knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as Go, Rust, JavaScript, 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).
• Experience designing, implementing, and documenting customer-facing APIs are a huge plus.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying possible failures in a large-scale distributed system.
• Experience with containers (Docker & Kubernetes)

• 5+ years of professional experience building and managing software applications at scale.
• Deep knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as Go, Rust, JavaScript, PHP with strong computer science fundamentals.
• Experience in…