# Systems Engineer, SSL/TLS Team

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Austin
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Summary

Cloudflare is looking for a Systems Engineer to join the SSL/TLS Team. The team is responsible for building services with RESTful APIs and their own datastores using Go and other languages. The successful candidate will help ensure that every site owner has the ability to provide their users with a secure connection.

## Responsibilities

- Design and implement services with RESTful APIs and their own datastores using Go and other languages

- Write and maintain functional specifications for services

- Integrate multiple services via message queue systems

- Evaluate 3rd party and open source tools

- Design and implement alerts, write procedures for ops to handle such alerts, or serve as an escalation point for unresolved operational issues

- Read and understand code from a legacy codebase to migrate logic to a modern services architecture

- Review the code of fellow engineers via pull requests

## Requirements

- 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

- Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc)

## What Makes Cloudflare Special?

- Project Galileo: equipping journalism and civil society organizations with tools to defend against cyber attacks

- Athenian Project: providing high-level protection and reliability for state and local government election websites

- 1.1.1.1: a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- distributed systems
- Unix/Linux development
- debugging
- troubleshooting

### Nice to have
- RESTful APIs
- PKI/TLS concepts
- certificate management
- SQL
- relational databases
- message queues

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