Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Infrastructure)

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Cloudflare

Hybrid

Posted April 21, 2026

Job Description

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.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. 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.

Location: Washington DC or Austin TX

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.

What you'll do

As a Software Engineer: Distributed Systems, you will be part of a Resiliency Organization responsible for the core services that power Cloudflare’s global operations. We are looking for engineers to join the Infrastructure Intelligence team and shape the transition toward model-driven network orchestration.

The team is building a cutting-edge 'Maintenance Coordination System', powered by an infrastructure dependency graph of one of the world's largest physical networks. This is a foundational step towards designing intelligent, autonomous systems that will transform the orchestration of Cloudflare’s network. It forms the basis of many future projects to build the core data structures and services required to ensure our network optimization, network forecasting, and capacity planning are the state of the art.

By creating the robust primitives for global coordination today, you will be enabling the next generation of data-driven infrastructure at Cloudflare. This is a unique opportunity to work on complex, globally distributed systems which underpin all Cloudflare products.

Technologies we use:

Cloudflare Workers, Workers KV, R2, and Durable Objects
Kubernetes
Go, Typescript, Python
For service monitoring we use Prometheus, Grafana and Sentry

Because you’ll be solving problems of massive scale and significance, and shaping the future of the Internet, you are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone in a fast-paced environment.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

As an ideal candidate for this position, you are curious, hard-working, and passionate.

A rough list of the skills we would love to see you bring:

A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related field; OR have relevant background/experience to the field.
Programming ex

nodepythontypescriptgoawskubernetesmachine learningaifrontendbackend