Software Engineer, Identity and Access Management

Cloudflare

full-time

Posted on: 9/19/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado

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💰 $137,000 - $167,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

Distributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaJavaScriptKubernetesPHPPostgresPrometheusRedisRustSQL

About the role

Full stack software engineer on Cloudflare’s control plane product platform building and maintaining the codebase that powers customer APIs and internal service APIs.
Design and implement backend architecture, database schema and interactions; work with Postgres and other relational systems.
Develop new code to solve product requirements and maintain existing code to squash bugs.
Collaborate closely with product teams to understand and document functional needs.
Ensure code is easily understood, testable, and able to operate under constant load and scrutiny.
Visualize flow of data through complex applications and identify possible failures.
Operate and debug large-scale distributed systems; optimize performance and reliability.
Work with tech stack including Go, Redis, Postgres, and Cloudflare products (e.g. Workers).
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.
Experience designing, implementing, and documenting customer-facing APIs.
Solid knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL.
Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying possible failures in a large-scale distributed system.
Experience with containers (Docker & Kubernetes).
Proficiency in RESTful API design, relational databases (SQL), and modern containerized deployment practices.
Commitment to easily understood and test code and ability to visualize flow of data through a complex application.
Passion for Observability (experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana are a plus) (nice-to-have).
Experience deploying containerized applications (Docker & Kubernetes) (nice-to-have).
Strong history of delivering full stack applications in partnership with product owners and user experience designers (nice-to-have).