Cloudflare·Software Engineer

Cloudflare Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying online and also checking in via a university event, I went through a pretty classic two-round flow.

First I had a short talk with the hiring manager where we went through my resume and then moved into behavioral-style questions. A couple weeks later I got the technical round: a backend pair-programming style task with a real discussion around design and tradeoffs.

I ended up working through a simple task scheduler and then talking out loud about how I could scale it beyond the basic version. The conversation naturally slid into distributed-systems thinking as I explained what would change with distribution, failure modes, and scaling. Along the way, we also touched on how to reason about

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