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Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare for SaaS
Cloudflare INC · 🇺🇸 Hybrid
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 120 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Cloudflare INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles19 certified filings for “Senior Systems Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $185k–$204k, median $195k. Most were filed at wage level II (47%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 120 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Location: Austin Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare for SaaS Role Summary Cloudflare for SaaS lets SaaS providers offer their services on domains branded for each customer, rather than on the provider's own domain. The product powers customer domains and automates the complex work behind onboarding domains, validating ownership, issuing and renewing certificates, and safely deploying configuration across Cloudflare's global network. The team builds the APIs and control-plane systems used by some of the world's largest platforms. We are evolving these systems to support tens of millions of customer domains, faster and more reliable APIs, simpler configuration at scale, and more Cloudflare products for each customer domain. This work combines customer-facing product development with challenging problems in distributed systems, data modeling, state consistency, observability, and operational reliability. Cloudflare is looking for a Software Engineer to design, build, and operate the services behind Cloudflare for SaaS. You will work primarily on backend services and RESTful APIs in Go and other languages, modernize legacy control-plane workflows, and improve the reliability and scalability of production systems. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers across Cloudflare, write clear technical specifications, review code, instrument services, and help diagnose and resolve operational issues. What You'll Do • Design, build, and operate reliable backend services and APIs for managing customer domains and their configuration. • Evolve the control plane to support tens of millions of customer domains without sacrificing correctness, availability, or API performance. • Improve certificate and domain lifecycle workflows, including onboarding, validation, renewal, migration, and safe deletion. • Model ownership and shared state carefully so changes remain consistent across distributed services and configuration stores. • Build useful observability, alerts, and operational procedures, and participate in debugging and incident response. • Collaborate across engineering and product teams, document designs and tradeoffs, and review the work of fellow engineers. Role Requirements