or apply directly on Cloudflare's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 20 days Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 28% of Cloudflare's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare
- low 0 stale, 12 reposted of 342 open
- Hiring momentum
- 494 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Cloudflare's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Cloudflare.
About this role
As a Systems Engineer on the SSL/TLS Team at Cloudflare, you will be responsible for building services that utilize RESTful APIs and manage TLS certificates to enhance web security for millions of websites. Your role involves writing production-quality code in Go, integrating services via message queues, and maintaining functional specifications to ensure clarity in operations. You will also troubleshoot operational issues and migrate legacy code to modern architectures, contributing to the reliability and performance of Cloudflare's systems.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Cloudflare as an employer.
What you need
- 3+ years of professional experience building backend systems at a technology company
- Experience writing production-quality code in Go (or other languages with a willingness to learn Go)
- Proven experience building and operating distributed systems
- Proficiency with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail
- Track record of delivering well-tested, reliable code for production environments
Nice to have
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and full-stack applications
- Familiarity with PKI/TLS concepts and certificate management
- Experience writing technical documentation and specifications
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
- Understanding of distributed systems constraints: performance, caching, data storage/retrieval
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Hybrid work environment may require in-person interviews at Cloudflare offices or hubs
- Role involves working with legacy code which may require additional effort to modernize
Summarised from Cloudflare's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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