Software Development Engineer - Remote

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s 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 Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Cloudflare’s Infrastructure Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month. We ensure that all of the new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing, global customer base.

You will work on expanding and evolving the suite of automations that allow our Infrastructure Operations partners to provision, expand, repair, and decommission our rapidly growing fleet of servers. You will collaborate with the team to understand business needs and develop technical solutions. You will thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and work closely with internal customers to understand their requirements.

The "AI-First" Mandate: In this role, AI is a tool for strategic mastery. You will be expected to integrate AI into your workflow—utilizing LLMs and predictive analytics to synthesize partner intelligence, monitor regulatory shifts, and automate regional reporting. This allows you to maintain high-level diplomacy while scaling your impact across the broader APAC and EMEA regions.

At least 5+ years of hands-on software development experience on meaningfully complex systems.

Excellent proficiency in one of Python, Go, or Rust, with deep understanding of the language and its best practices.

Experience working with Linux systems

Basic networking knowledge, like VLAN, Routing, DNS, etc

Experience building both backend systems and frontend widgets.

Ability to contribute to planning, development, and execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.

Comfortable working on projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles.

Experience with DCIM, CMDB, IPAM, and other Data Center and Asset Lifecycle Management tools is a plus

Excellent verbal and written English language skills.

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Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project : In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

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