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Senior Systems Engineer, AI Gateway

Cloudflare · In-Office

Posted about 3 months ago · $194,000-266,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
82 days
Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 83 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
28% of Cloudflare's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare
high
342 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
2026-10-25

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 Senior Systems Engineer for AI Gateway at Cloudflare, you will be responsible for building core systems that manage high-volume AI inference traffic. This role involves designing APIs, enhancing developer workflows, and improving system reliability and performance. You will work across various product and infrastructure boundaries, turning ambiguous ideas into production-ready features while leveraging AI-native tools to enhance engineering productivity.

Our read on this posting4.2out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
5/5

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

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems, ideally in AI infrastructure, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, edge/proxy systems, high-scale APIs, or distributed systems
  • Strong systems engineering fundamentals: networking, APIs, reliability, observability, data modeling, performance, and operational tradeoffs
  • Experience designing or scaling distributed systems where latency, throughput, availability, and correctness all matter
  • Ability to work comfortably across the stack, from API design and product surfaces to backend services, queues, storage systems, control planes, or performance-critical code
  • Strong developer tools taste
  • Clear technical communication skills

Nice to have

  • Experience building AI/ML infrastructure, inference platforms, model gateways, LLM-powered applications, or provider abstraction layers
  • Experience building developer-facing APIs, SDKs, CLIs, dashboards, or platform products at scale
  • Hands-on experience with proxy, edge, gateway, routing, or traffic management systems
  • Familiarity with the current AI ecosystem
  • Experience with cost controls, rate limits, caching, retries, fallbacks, evaluation, or observability for AI workloads

What you get

  • Medical/Rx Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Spending Accounts
  • Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

Worth weighing

  • No remote work option mentioned; position is in-office only
  • Compensation varies significantly by location; Bay Area salaries are higher than other regions
  • Role involves rapidly changing AI ecosystem; candidates should be comfortable with this pace

Summarised from Cloudflare's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-25. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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