Cloudflare·Software Engineer

Cloudflare Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview path started with a hiring manager round, then moved into a pretty meaty onsite coding/design stretch.

The first big technical part was a 90-minute coding-style session focused on system design: building something like a batch summarizer for support tickets using a third-party LLM, along with rate-limiting pseudocode. After that, I did another 90-minute design task around a distributed scheduled HTTP-ping system.

Next came a 90-minute code review/debugging round, and after that I had a senior-leadership style conversation about GenAI and coding agent usage. By that point I had talked to enough people across the technical ladder that the process felt like a full arc rather than isolated

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