Senior Systems Engineer, Identity & Access Management

Cloudflare
Austin
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 5-8 yearsSkills: ["High agency","Correctness-focused","Security-minded","Collaborative problem-solving","Curiosity"]

Build correctness-critical, high-throughput IAM services that power authentication and authorization for Cloudflare’s Control Plane. You’ll design and evolve modern distributed architectures for login/SSO, OAuth and API tokens, account membership, roles/permissions, and SCIM provisioning. Own features end-to-end, translate product/security requirements into robust APIs, maintain reliability under constant load, and deliver engineering excellence through code reviews and technical documentation—using AI tools to accelerate development.

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Senior Systems Engineer, Identity & Access Management

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Job Summary

Build correctness-critical, high-throughput IAM services that power authentication and authorization for Cloudflare’s Control Plane. You’ll design and evolve modern distributed architectures for login/SSO, OAuth and API tokens, account membership, roles/permissions, and SCIM provisioning. Own features end-to-end, translate product/security requirements into robust APIs, maintain reliability under constant load, and deliver engineering excellence through code reviews and technical documentation—using AI tools to accelerate development.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build high-throughput, low-latency IAM capabilities for customer-facing and internal APIs.
  • •Contribute to the design and evolution of authentication and authorization systems into modern distributed, edge-capable architectures.
  • •Translate product and security requirements into robust APIs and technical specifications with Product, Security, and UX.
  • •Maintain engineering excellence through thorough code reviews, technical design documents, and collaborative problem-solving.
  • •Ensure operational stewardship by building observability and resilience and owning reliability under constant load.

Key Requirements

  • •5-8 years building and operating production systems at scale.
  • •Working knowledge of identity protocols and models such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC/ABAC, and session management.
  • •Hands-on experience implementing identity protocols or fine-grained authorization systems (e.g., RBAC/ABAC, policy engines like Cedar) in production.
  • •Proficiency in Go and TypeScript and comfort working across Cloudflare’s tech stack.
  • •Experience designing and building REST APIs (routing, authentication, request lifecycle, versioning), plus PostgreSQL and Redis for schema/query optimization and caching.
Experience:5-8 yearsIdentityDistributed systemsProduction systems
Skills:High agencyCorrectness-focusedSecurity-mindedCollaborative problem-solvingCuriosity
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoTypeScriptOAuth 2.0OIDCSAMLSCIMRBACABACCedarREST APIsPostgreSQLRedisDockerKubernetesTerraformPrometheusGrafanaKibanaWorkersDurable Objects

Company Brief

Cloudflare
Provides a global network and cloud platform that delivers security, performance, and reliability services for web applications, APIs, and Internet properties, including CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, and zero-trust security solutions.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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