CloudflareSoftware Engineer (Backend)
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.
About the Team:
Location: India Bengaluru
As customer zero, we evangelize our products to drive maximum business value while serving as the "glue" that aligns cross-functional stakeholders with our technical ecosystem. We operate with an automation-first mindset, purposefully outgrowing yesterday’s processes to create the headspace needed to solve tomorrow’s problems. On this team, you won't just maintain the status quo—you'll foster the collaboration and innovation necessary to ensure our products and people work better together.
Enablement: We evangelize and elevate awareness around our product offerings and opportunities to leverage our own product for business value capabilities
Be the glue: Like the many products we have, it only works if it all works well together. Finding common ground to enhanced cross-functional collaboration and alignment with business stakeholders will strengthen customer and product common ground.
Automation First mindset: We can only truly do our best work when we have the space to reimagine how we solve tomorrow's problems today. It's okay that what worked well yesterday may not be what we need for tomorrow.
About this Role:
We are seeking a highly experienced Software Developer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing solutions and executing the roadmap with a particular focus on enabling Model Context Protocol (MCP) adoption across Enterprise Applications. You will play a pivotal role in connecting our AI assistants to our internal systems.
Responsibilities:
- Work with leadership to organize a backlog of MCP servers needing to be built for various Enterprise Applications.
- Design and develop MCP servers for both SaaS and on-premise applications, ensuring secure and efficient context retrieval.
- Provide feedback and feature enhancements to improve the patterns by which we develop MCP servers. Enable other developers who may follow.
- Partner closely with our internal MCP server rollout team to co-develop solutions or explore new opportunities for secure enablement.
- Use your experience working cross-functionally to work closely with system owners so existing processes can be adapted to work with MCP development outcomes.
Requirements:
- 3-5+ years of experience with design, development, and streamlining of Enterprise processes using automation and technical enablement.
- Specific experience in developing MCP servers for SaaS and on-prem applications.
- Advanced programming experience with Typescript, Python, or Go, including Microservice, REST, open API specs, and Integration design.
- Strong knowledge and experience with configuration management tools and Infrastructure as Code methods, such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.
- Strong knowledge and experience with build-deploy pipeline development and best practices in tools like GitLab or GitHub.
- Experience and expertise in Agile methodology.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in written and spoken English.
- Prior experience working on enterprise MCP engineering teams.
Fraud Alert: Do not fall victim to recruitment fraud. Cloudflare never charges application fees or requires candidates to purchase third-party certifications or training as a condition of employment. All official communication comes strictly from @cloudflare.com email addresses.
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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