Systems Engineer - Global Resource Management (Data Residency)

About the role

As a Systems Engineer on the Global Resource Management team, you will design, build, and operate the microservices and REST APIs that power Cloudflare’s tag‑api platform, enabling unified metadata across all resources. The role is highly autonomous, horizontal, and impacts every Cloudflare product by providing scalable, reliable infrastructure for tagging, sharing, and resource identity.

About the company

Cloudflare is a global internet security and performance company that runs one of the world’s largest networks, protecting and accelerating web traffic for everyone from individual bloggers to Fortune 500 enterprises. The firm emphasizes a culture of curiosity, AI‑driven iteration, and a mission to build a better, open Internet.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems at scale
• Proficiency in Go
• Experience designing and building REST APIs, including routing, authentication, and request lifecycle
• Strong PostgreSQL skills: schema design, migrations, query optimization, and replication patterns
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, communicate technical trade‑offs clearly, and drive alignment with distributed engineers
• Understanding of distributed systems trade‑offs such as consistency models, eventual consistency, event‑driven replication, and operational implications
• Nice to have: experience building platform or internal developer infrastructure
• Nice to have: familiarity with Kubernetes for deployment and operations
• Nice to have: experience with event‑driven architectures, outbox patterns, or message‑based replication (e.g., Watermill, Kafka)
• Nice to have: familiarity with edge computing platforms like Cloudflare Workers or similar serverless runtimes