Systems Engineer Global Resource Management (Data Residency)

Location: Austin (Hybrid)

About the Role

Cloudflare operates one of the worlds largest networks processing millions of requests per second across 300 cities. Today customers can localize where their traffic is processed but their configuration data logs and cryptographic keys still live in centralized datacenters. Data Residency Architecture (DRA) closes that gap. It extends data residency from the data plane across every layer of how Cloudflare stores processes and protects customer data. Customers get the ability to keep their data where their laws say it should be. DRA isnt a separate network or an isolated fork. Its the same Cloudflare with cryptographic and architectural controls ensuring customer data stays within the regions a customer chooses. The program spans multiple pillars from regional storage and post-quantum cryptography to logging pipeline expansion and product onboarding with multiple engineering teams working in parallel.

Youll join a small high-autonomy team within this larger program. Your primary focus is building the customer-facing and internal experience for DRA: how customers create regionalized accounts how API requests route to regional control planes how the dashboard adapts to per-account data residency and how Cloudflares internal teams provision and manage it all. The nature of a cross-cutting program means you wont stay in one lane. Youll integrate with teams building the regional storage orchestrator the cryptographic key layer and the data pipeline infrastructure. The scope is wide the team is small and the decisions you make will shape how this system works at scale.

What Youll Work On

• Regional API Routing - Build per-account API hostname generation and routing so that customer requests terminate in their chosen country integrating with Cloudflares Data Localization Suite and edge API gateway.
• Dashboard Integration - Modify the Cloudflare dashboard so that API calls route through regional endpoints while surfacing clear regional indicators to the customer.
• Account Creation & Provisioning - Build the account creation flow that captures country/region selection and integrates with the Control Plane Platform orchestrator to provision per-account regional storage and configuration.
• Internal Tooling - Build admin tooling (provisioning integrations billing shims operational dashboards) so that support sales and finance teams can manage DRA accounts without violating residency constraints.
• Cross-Team Integration - Work across the DRA program to integrate with regional storage cryptographic key management and logging infrastructure built by other teams.
• Migration & Self-Service - Help design the path from manual provisioning (MVP) to dashboard self-service and eventually tooling that migrates existing enterprise customers into DRA.

What Were Looking For

Required:

• 3 years of professional software engineering experience building production systems at scale.
• Proficiency in Go. Our backend services and core platform are written in Go.
• Comfort or willingness to work in TypeScript. Our control plane uses Cloudflare Workers (TypeScript) and the dashboard is a TypeScript application.
• Experience designing and building REST APIs. You understand routing authentication request lifecycle and how frontends consume distributed backends.
• Comfort with distributed systems tradeoffs data locality replication consistency models and the latency implications of geographically distributed infrastructure. You dont need to have designed a sharded database but you should be able to reason about why it matters that a customers data is in Frankfurt and not Portland.
• Ability to work across team boundaries. DRA spans nearly every engineering organization at Cloudflare. Youll need to navigate ambiguity communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and drive alignment with engineers you dont share a standup with.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with data residency sovereignty or compliance engineering (GDPR EU Data Act EUCS FedRAMP or equivalent regulatory frameworks).
• Familiarity with edge computing platforms such as Cloudflare Workers Durable Objects or similar serverless/edge-native runtimes.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL ClickHouse or SQLite in production environments.

Why This Role

• Greenfield at scale. Youre building a new architectural capability from the ground up on one of the largest networks on the Internet
• Small team big scope. This is a small high-autonomy engineering team operating within a major cross-functional program. Youll have outsized ownership and direct influence over technical decisions not a ticket queue.
• Cross-cutting impact. DRA touches the control plane data plane logging pipeline cryptographic infrastructure and customer experience. This role is not siloed into one service or one layer of the stack.
• Regulatory relevance. Data sovereignty is one of the defining infrastructure challenges of the next decade. Youll build deep expertise in a problem space with growing demand across every major cloud provider and regulated industry.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses support caregiving build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs including parental pregnancy health medical and bereavement leave

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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