# Software Engineer, Registrar

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Java, Go, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Git, gitlab ci, Prometheus, Grafana, kibana, openapi, DNS, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> Software engineer building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale systems and services for domain management, registry operations, and compliance at Cloudflare. Requires 4+ years experience with high-performance languages, systems programming, and debugging complex infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Designing, building, running and scaling tools and services that support the full spectrum of domain management.
- Analyzing and communicating complex technical requirements and concepts, working with technical leaders to carve a path to delivery.
- Improving system design and architecture to ensure stability and performance of the internal and customer-facing compliance concerns.
- Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of production services, including participation in on-call rotations.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on designing, building and scaling data infrastructure.
- Strong communication skills, especially around articulating technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working on, and deploying, large scale systems in Java, Go, Ruby/Rails, or other high performance languages.
- Experience (and love) for debugging to ensure the system works in all cases.
- Strong systems level programming skills.
- Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems that all websites face.
- Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git).

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Cloudflare Developer Platform.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with Java or Go (or a strong desire to learn).
- Experience working with OpenAPI.
- Experience with AI coding tools.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with Kibana, Grafana, and/or Prometheus.
- Experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres).
- Experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI.
- Experience with DNS (and DNSSEC).
- Experience in the registry/registrar industry.

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