Systems Engineer, Product Platform Tools

Cloudflare, Inc

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Austin, TX
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75 days ago
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Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.

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TL;DR · Systems Engineer, Product Platform Tools

The Systems Engineer, Product Platform Tools joins the Product Platform Tools team to build and operate the internal support and admin platform. This foundational system serves customer-facing and operational teams across the organization. You will design and implement backend services, infrastructure, APIs, and integrations while partnering with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders like Support, Legal, and Security. Key responsibilities include managing security and authorization postures, onboarding applications, and maintaining high-availability production environments. Required technical skills include proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, and database schema design. You must also understand authentication systems like OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT. The role solves the business problem of providing scalable, well-governed internal tooling to meet the operational needs of a large, globally distributed organization.

What does a Systems Engineer earn?

Median $157750 from 252 postings across 38 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and operate backend services, infrastructure, APIs, and integrations for the internal support and admin platform.
  • Partner with engineering teams to onboard their support and admin applications onto the platform.
  • Translate operational needs from non-engineering stakeholders like Support, Legal, and Security into platform capabilities.
  • Own and improve the platform's security, authorization posture, and compliance standards at scale.
  • Navigate legacy codebases to make improvements that reduce operational toil and increase platform reliability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, respond to production incidents, and lead post-incident reviews.
  • Contribute to platform observability, developer experience, and engineering standards for all dependent teams.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional experience building and operating production backend services at enterprise or large-scale organizations.
  • Strong proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript.
  • Demonstrated experience in platform engineering, internal tooling, or support/admin systems supporting non-technical end users.
  • Strong understanding of authorization and authentication systems such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, OPA/Rego, and RBAC.
  • Advanced, hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments.
  • Strong database experience including schema design, query optimization, and high-availability operations.
  • Proven ability to communicate technical details to non-technical stakeholders across engineering, Security, and Legal teams.
  • Export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

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