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What this posting asks for

Level: Senior — The posting asks for 5+ years of experience.

Main responsibilities

• API and gateway development: design and build the backend services, APIs, and gateway capabilities (routing, authentication, request handling, upstream integ…
• API-driven onboarding: set and raise the standard for onboarding applications onto the platform. Use clear API contracts, well-governed access, and a repeata…
• Stakeholder partnership: work directly with Support, Legal, and Security to turn operational needs into maintainable platform features.
• Security and authorization: own the platform's authorization model. Work with Security and Legal to implement and enforce access control, governance, and com…
• Reliability of what you build: build observability and resilience into your services, take part in on-call for them, respond to incidents, and lead post-inci…
• Engineering excellence: ramp quickly into unfamiliar and legacy codebases and make incremental improvements that reduce toil. Keep a high bar through code re…
• AI-assisted engineering: use AI coding tools as a normal part of how you design, build, and debug. Review their output with the same rigor you'd apply to any…
• Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
• These are examples of what a strong candidate brings:
• Professional experience: 5+ years building and operating production backend services at scale.

Competencies an interviewer will look for

• Technical skill Core
  In the posting: “Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.” · “It includes the API gateway and authorization layer that control access to those teams' internal applications.” · “You'll set a high standard for how applications onboard onto the platform, taking an API-driven approach to contracts, access, and integration.”
  Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
• Customer focus Core
  In the posting: “Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individu…” · “The Product Platform Tools team builds and operates Cloudflare's internal support and admin platform, which customer-facing and operational teams across the …” · “Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themse…”
  Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
• Data and analysis Core
  In the posting: “Data: hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Redis, including schema design, query optimization, and caching strategies.” · “Observability experience: distributed tracing, structured logging, and dashboards (Grafana, Kibana, Jaeger).” · “We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.”
  Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
• Adaptability and learning Core
  In the posting: “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.” · “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, y…” · “You'll need curiosity about how Cloudflare works under the hood, a security-first mindset, and the communication skills to turn operational needs into reliab…”
  Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
• Attention to detail and quality Core
  In the posting: “You'll set a high standard for how applications onboard onto the platform, taking an API-driven approach to contracts, access, and integration.” · “API-driven onboarding: set and raise the standard for onboarding applications onto the platform.” · “Work with Security and Legal to implement and enforce access control, governance, and compliance requirements in code.”
  Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
• Ownership and accountability Core
  In the posting: “Security and authorization: own the platform's authorization model.” · “Ownership and autonomy: confident in legacy code, self-directed, and able to drive ambiguous problems to resolution across team boundaries.”
  Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
• Stakeholder management Core
  In the posting: “Stakeholder partnership: work directly with Support, Legal, and Security to turn operational needs into maintainable platform features.” · “Cross-team collaboration: comfortable working with engineering, Security, Legal, and non-technical stakeholders, and explaining technical detail to each.”
  Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
• Problem solving Supporting
  In the posting: “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, y…”
  Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix.
• Communication Supporting
  In the posting: “You'll need curiosity about how Cloudflare works under the hood, a security-first mindset, and the communication skills to turn operational needs into reliab…”
  Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
• Teamwork and collaboration Supporting
  In the posting: “Cross-team collaboration: comfortable working with engineering, Security, Legal, and non-technical stakeholders, and explaining technical detail to each.”
  Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
• Planning and organisation Supporting
  In the posting: “Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themse…”
  Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.

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