- 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.
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What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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