Platform Design Engineer (UX)

Available Locations:

• London UK
• Lisbon Portugal
• Austin TX

About the Role
Were looking for a creative and technical Platform Design Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This role is central to advancing our Platform Design initiatives tackling key customer pain points and delivering high-quality scalable experiences across all of Cloudflare. You will be a critical bridge between design and engineering turning ambitious concepts into production-ready code and making high-impact improvements to areas that span our entire product suite.

Youll partner closely with the Design organization to scope build and ship everything from large-scale strategic overhauls to foundational design patterns and fixes to customer experiences. This role is perfect for a frontend-focused engineer who has a passion for design a strong eye for detail and a desire to build systems that empower other developers.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement Strategic UX Overhauls: Partner with Design to execute high-impact projects such as overhauling company-wide interaction patterns standardizing templates or re-imagining dynamic customer journeys.
• Build Foundational Design Patterns: Engineer update and maintain reusable components and patterns that accelerate feature delivery for all product teams.
• Contribute to the Design System: Ensure new and updated patterns are scalable performant and contributed back to our internal design systems for global use.
• Explore North Star Concepts: Pair directly with designers to explore future-state North Star proposals building prototypes in both Figma and code to validate ideas and inform future roadmaps.
• Targeted UX enhancements: Triage prioritize (with design) and rapidly fix small enhancements polish items and bugs reported by customers and internal teams.
• Add Polish and Enhancements: Elevate the user experience by adding thoughtful microinteractions and polish to components and core workflows.

Technologies We Use

• React TypeScript JavaScript (ES6) Webpack Figma Miro
• Tailwind Lightning CSS
• Storybook Chromatic
• GitLab CI/CD Git
• Jest Playwright React Testing Library

Qualifications

• 4 years of experience in a hybrid Design Engineer UI Engineer or Frontend Engineer role with a strong design focus.
• Expertise in building modern scalable and responsive UI applications using React TypeScript and advanced CSS.
• A strong portfolio showcasing your ability to translate complex design concepts (Figma Sketch etc.) into high-quality pixel-perfect code.
• Hands-on experience building maintaining or contributing to a component library or design system (e.g. using Storybook).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a proven ability to work effectively with designers and product managers to scope work and find scalable solutions.
• A pragmatic and product-oriented mindset capable of balancing technical debt design intent and development velocity.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with UX prototyping and iterating in both high-fidelity (Figma) and code-based tools.
• A keen eye for motion design and experience implementing subtle microinteractions and animations.
• Familiarity with web accessibility (WCAG) and building inclusive interfaces.
• Experience working on large-scale platform-level products used by multiple teams.
• Ability to triage and prioritize a backlog of small enhancements and bugs based on impact and effort.

Why Join Us

• Bridge the gap between design and engineering on a high-visibility high-impact platform team.
• Directly address and solve platform-wide customer pain points improving the experience for millions of users.
• Shape the future of the Cloudflare UI by building its foundational patterns and exploring ambitious North Star concepts.
• Join a collaborative fast-moving team that values high-quality scalable design and rapid iteration.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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