Software Engineer - Platforms & Productivity

As an engineer in the Engineering Productivity and Platforms organization, you'll be building and managing tools to help engineers deploy and operate the services that make Cloudflare work. Our mission is to provide a reliable, yet flexible, platform to help product teams release new software efficiently and safely. The role includes both software engineering and DevOps operational responsibilities. The role has a focus on Agentic Engineering, building tools for engineers internally to leverage modern AI agents, models, and agentic practices, including MCP servers, agentic IDEs, autonomous agents, evals, and AI-native improvements to the internal SDLC.

Responsibilities

Design and build developer productivity tooling including MCP servers and agents; Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive; Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms; Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues; Improve our GitOps systems and practices; Work with app teams to understand their potential challenges and help them choose the best way to architect their systems

Requirements

Experience of 3-12 years; Ability to work with codebases in Bash, TypeScript and Go; Excellent debugging skills; Source control experience including branching, merging and rebasing; The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs and drive the effort to solve the problem

Nice to have

Providing guidance and building platforms across multiple zones and regions as foundation for other teams to build distributed highly-available applications; Worked in a platform engineering team/engineering productivity team in the past