Systems Engineer, Product Platform Tools
CloudflareNetwork Security company
Austin, United StatesSenior
New Enterprise Associates
Union Square Ventures
Venrock
CapitalG
Pelion Venture Partners
Greenspring Associates
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and operate Cloudflare's internal support and admin platform at enterprise scale.
- •{"about_the_role": "The Product Platform Tools team builds and operates Cloudflare's internal support and admin platform.
- •As a Systems Engineer on this team, you'll design and build backend services, infrastructure, APIs, and integrations that power this platform at enterprise scale, working closely with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.", "key_responsibilities": ["Design, implement, and operate backend services, infrastructure, APIs, and integrations for Cloudflare's internal support and admin platform.", "Partner with engineering teams to onboard their support and admin applications onto the platform.", "Work with non-engineering stakeholders (Support, Legal, Security) to translate operational needs into platform capabilities.", "Own and improve the platform's security and authorization posture, ensuring access control and governance.", "Ramp quickly into unfamiliar codebases and make improvements to reduce operational toil and improve reliability."], "requirements": ["5+ years of professional experience building and operating production backend services, with proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript.", "Experience in platform engineering, internal tooling, or support/admin systems.", "Strong understanding of authorization and authentication systems (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, OPA/Rego) and a security-first approach.", "Proven scalability mindset and experience operating systems for large, diverse internal consumers.", "Confident working across organizational boundaries and in unfamiliar/legacy codebases."]}
Required skills
GoTypeScriptKubernetesDockerOAuthJWTPostgreSQLMySQLRedisTerraformGitLab CIREST API
Nice-to-have skills
ElasticsearchGrafanagRPC
Domain expertise
developer-tools
Tech stack
GoTypeScriptKubernetesDockerOAuthJWTPostgreSQLMySQLRedisElasticsearchGrafanaTerraformGitLab CIREST APIgRPC