Systems Engineer, Browser Isolation

Cloudflare; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 116,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is hiring for its Browser Isolation team to build a Chromium-based browser engine and related distributed services. You will work across C++, Rust, Go, and TypeScript to deliver secure, high-performance web experiences at scale.

The role involves debugging across browser processes, optimizing startup and latency, and contributing to production readiness. This position may require on-call rotations and collaboration with global teams to protect and accelerate the Internet.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in C++ with understanding of memory ownership, lifetimes, and concurrency.
• Linux/UNIX fundamentals, including processes, threads, networking, and diagnostic tools.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience delivering production software in distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own features from design and implementation through testing, rollout, and production follow-up with team support.
• Develop and maintain C++ code in the Chromium-based browser; contribute across Go, Rust, and TypeScript services.
• Debug issues across browser processes, Linux hosts, and distributed services using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools.
• Improve session reliability, startup time, latency, and resource efficiency with measurements.
• Write maintainable code, automated tests, and design notes; participate in code and design reviews.
• Collaborate with teammates and partner teams, communicating trade-offs and blockers, and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

C++

Rust

Go

TypeScript

WebRTC

WebGL

Wasm

Tools

Chromium

Nomad

Consul

Kubernetes

Cloudflare Workers

Job description

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 Locations: Austin, TX (US)

About the team

Cloudflare Browser Isolation runs web content in remote browsers, helping protect users from threats while preserving a responsive browsing experience.

Our team builds the Chromium-based browsing engine, remote rendering and streaming technology, and distributed services that manage browser sessions across Cloudflare’s global network.

You will work at the intersection of systems programming, distributed systems, and security. Engineers contribute across the product, collaborating on browser changes, service orchestration, observability, and build infrastructure.

Scope and growth

At this level, you will be accountable for reliable delivery within a defined component or problem area. You will make sound implementation decisions, seek help when needed, and build broader system knowledge over time. You do not need to have led an organization-wide architecture effort to succeed in this role.

Technologies we use

• Browser engine: Chromium and C++.
• Systems programming: Rust.
• Distributed services and orchestration: Go, TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Nomad, and Consul.
• Remote rendering and streaming: WebRTC and Skia.
• Browser client: TypeScript, WebAssembly, and WebGL.

What you will do

• Own well-scoped features and improvements from design and implementation through testing, rollout, and production follow-up, with support from experienced teammates.
• Develop and maintain C++ code in our Chromium-based browser, and contribute across distributed services and systems components written in Go, Rust, and TypeScript.
• Debug failures across browser processes, Linux hosts, and distributed services using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools.
• Improve session reliability, startup time, interactive latency, and resource efficiency; validate improvements with measurements.
• Write maintainable code, automated tests, and clear design notes; participate in constructive code and design reviews.
• Collaborate with teammates and partner teams, communicate trade-offs and blockers, and incorporate feedback.
• Participate in the team’s production on-call rotation after onboarding, and contribute to incident mitigation and follow-up improvements. This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Experience delivering and maintaining production software, with practical C++ proficiency and an understanding of memory ownership, resource lifetimes, and concurrency.
• Linux/UNIX fundamentals, including processes, threads, networking, and tools for diagnosing system behavior.
• Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience developing or operating distributed systems, with an understanding of service-to-service communication, timeouts, retries, partial failure, and basic consistency trade-offs.
• Ability to navigate an unfamiliar codebase, break a defined problem into deliverable steps, and test correctness and failure cases.
• A systematic approach to debugging and performance analysis, using evidence to form and test hypotheses.
• Clear communication, collaborative problem-solving, and a willingness to learn Rust, Go, TypeScript, and the rest of our stack.

Bonus Points

• These are preferred qualifications, not prerequisites. Prior Browser Isolation or Cloudflare experience is not required.
• Browser engines, Chromium, browser sandboxing, or security-sensitive systems.
• Low-latency streaming, graphics, remote computing, or other real-time systems.
• Container and workload orchestration, including Nomad or Kubernetes, and service discovery.
• Experience using Rust for systems programming or distributed services.
• Go or TypeScript; WebRTC, Skia, WebAssembly, or WebGL.
• Production observability, capacity planning, incident response, or build and release infrastructure.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

• Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
• Athenian Project : In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
• 1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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