Platform Design Engineer

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. 

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. 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. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. 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, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations:

• London, UK
• Lisbon, Portugal 
• Austin, TX

 

About the RoleWe’re 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.

You’ll 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?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re 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, we've equipped more than 2,400 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 Cloudflare’s 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, we've 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. Here’s the deal - we don’t 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 you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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