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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 62 days Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 66 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 28% of Cloudflare's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare
- high 252 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
- 2026-10-08
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 in Identity & Access Management at Cloudflare, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency IAM capabilities that support both customer-facing and internal APIs. Your role involves designing and evolving authentication and authorization systems, ensuring operational reliability, and utilizing AI tools to enhance your development workflow. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust technical specifications while maintaining high engineering standards.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- 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
- 5-8 years building and operating production systems at scale
- Working knowledge of identity protocols and models (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC/ABAC)
- Hands-on experience implementing identity protocols or fine-grained authorization systems in production
- Proficiency in languages like Go and Typescript
- Experience designing and building REST APIs
- PostgreSQL and Redis experience
Nice to have
- Experience with credential and token lifecycle systems
- Familiarity with the Cloudflare developer platform
- Experience incrementally re-architecting a large codebase under production traffic
- Familiarity with containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform)
What you get
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Hybrid work location may vary
- Role involves high agency and problem-solving in ambiguous situations
Summarised from Cloudflare's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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