Design Engineer, Radar

Available Locations: Lisbon Portugal

About the Department

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflares edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.

About the Role

As a Design Engineer youll sit at the intersection of design front-end engineering and data visualization roles working closely with product managers engineers and also designers to craft fast elegant and reliable interfaces that make complex Internet trends and metrics easy to explore.

Youll be part of a growing engineering team tasked to help build and evolve projects at ETI such as Cloudflare Radar our public data-intelligence platform Radar Display our large-format visualization experience optimized for big screens and live event environments Year in Review and other tools which are part of our ecosystem where you will be able to enrich their user experience as well.

What youll do

We are looking for an experienced and empathetic Design Engineer who will help build and scale the platform that empowers millions of users to be successful with this role youll use your skills to ensure we have a world-class user interface that gives customers relevant and up-to-date content whenever they need it. This is a cross-functional role where youll work collaboratively across the product engineering and design teams.

• Design User experiences and UI components that scale across ETI ensuring performance on desktop mobile and large-format displays.
  
  
• Build interactive visualizations (maps charts dashboards) that bring global Internet data to life.
  
  
• Prototype high-fidelity UI/UX concepts and iterate rapidly based on user feedback and real-world data.
  
  
• Translate product specs into clear UI/UX design using modern design tooling (e.g. Figma Miro).
  
  
• Champion design system consistency contributing to new and reusable components to keep Radar cohesive and scalable in several distinct platforms.
  
  
• Ensure our products and tools meet high standards for performance accessibility internationalization and responsiveness.

• Maintain UX/UI high quality by performing rapidly fixes and small enhancements polishing items and bugs reported by customers and internal teams.
  
  
• Support the creation and optimization of tools like the Radar Display layouts tailored for big screens (wallboards NOCs conferences lobbies) and customized for diverse events.
  
  

Technologies We Use

• Figma Miro
• React Tailwind Storybook TypeScript
• Git GitLab CI/CD

Qualifications

• 3 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 Miro 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.
• Experience with web accessibility (WCAG) and building inclusive interfaces.
• Experience working on large-scale products used by multiple teams.

Why Join Us

• Bridge the gap between design and engineering on a high-visibility high-impact Radar team solving real problems.
• Directly address and solve 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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