Systems Engineer - Global Resource Management (Data Residency)

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: Austin (Hybrid)

About the Role

Cloudflare operates one of the world's largest networks, processing millions of requests per second across 300+ cities. Customers manage increasingly complex portfolios of resources on the platform, but there is no unified way to organize, group, or govern them across products. The Global Resource Management team introduces a centralized metadata across every Cloudflare resource, enabling customers to annotate resources with custom tags and unlocking platform-level capabilities.

You'll join the Global Resource Management (GRM) team, a small, high-autonomy team that builds the platform infrastructure other Cloudflare products build on top of. GRM is the centralized orchestration layer for cross-cutting resource operations. If a feature needs to work across every product (tagging, sharing, universal resource identity), GRM builds and operates it.

What You'll Work On

Your primary focus is building and operating the microservices and REST APIs that power the tag-api platform. You'll design and implement API endpoints, define data models, write migrations, and build the service-layer logic that handles validation, quota enforcement, and concurrency control. The work is hands-on backend engineering: building reliable, well-tested web services that other teams depend on.

A significant part of the role is scaling the platform to support new resource types and higher-throughput use cases. This includes building bulk operations APIs that handle thousands of resources per request while considering consistency, latency, and failure-mode tradeoffs.

GRM is a platform team, and this role is horizontal by nature. The services you build are consumed by teams across Cloudflare — Workers, Zero Trust, DNS, Access, Billing — and you'll work with those teams to onboard their resources, integrate with their APIs, and ensure the platform scales with their needs. The scope is wide, the team is small, and the systems you build will be foundational to how Cloudflare manages resources at scale.

What We're Looking For

Required

3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems at scale.

Proficiency in Go.

Experience designing and building REST APIs. You understand routing, authentication, request lifecycle, and how to design APIs that other teams integrate with at scale.

Comfort with PostgreSQL in production including: schema design, migrations, que