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 worlds 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.

Youll 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 Youll Work On Your primary focus is building and operating the microservices and REST APIs that power the tag-api platform Youll 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 we