Edge Rulesets Engineer: Shape the World’s Fastest Web Server

CloudFlare; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare in London is seeking engineers to strengthen the edge platform, focusing on reliability, performance, and safety across our global edge network. You will work on features and systems that power hundreds of millions of HTTP requests per second, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver robust web server capabilities.

The role emphasizes building scalable solutions in Rust and Go, with opportunities to contribute to the next generation of Cloudflare’s edge technology in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Solid competencies in practical computer science, applying the right algorithms, data structures, concurrency control systems to software design, and building large, distributed systems.
• Experience in performance engineering
• Driving communication and consensus across teams
• A drive for continuous improvement when it comes to both operations and new product development

Responsibilities

• You will work with a team of talented engineers to create new features to increase the availability, safety & reliability of the edge ecosystem.
• You will improve current features, create new systems from scratch, and collaborate with platform teams to help to build the best web server in the world, with a particular focus on the rules engine and associated control plane.
• This is a unique opportunity to be at the nexus of Cloudflare edge applications and operations and to collaborate closely with most other product and engineering teams at Cloudflare.

Skills

Distributed systems

Performance engineering

Cross-team communication

Continuous improvement

Tools

Rust

Go

Job description

Cloudflare in London is seeking engineers to strengthen the edge platform, focusing on reliability, performance, and safety across our global edge network. You will work on features and systems that power hundreds of millions of HTTP requests per second, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver robust web server capabilities.

The role emphasizes building scalable solutions in Rust and Go, with opportunities to contribute to the next generation of Cloudflare’s edge technology in a hybrid