Senior Network Software Engineer - Edge & BGP Systems

Cloudflare; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Cloudflare is hiring engineers of all experience levels to work on networking and edge services. You’ll contribute to anycast BGP, flow and log analytics, and a Linux-based dataplane, delivering features that scale across our vast edge network.

Collaborate with engineers and product managers to solve tough problems for customers worldwide, and join a culture that values curiosity, collaboration, and delivering measurable impact.

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems.
• Systems-level programming experience, especially in Go and Rust.
• Expertise in L3 and L4 networking protocols.
• Experience building on top of Linux kernel networking primitives – netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, network namespaces, etc
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and backend systems.
• Experience with large-scale distributed data pipelines, from data structuring to efficient querying to data analysis.
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems.
• Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process.
• Able to work across teams and level common, sustainable solutions.
• Creative, open-minded, collaborative problem solver.
• Focus on clarity in written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and operate our team’s systems on top of one of the largest edge networks in the world.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to solve big problems that have a meaningful impact for customers.
• Deliver new features and improve performance across Network Services products.

Skills

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

Networking protocols

Tools

netfilter

nftables

eBPF

tc

network namespaces

Job description

Cloudflare is hiring engineers of all experience levels to work on networking and edge services. You’ll contribute to anycast BGP, flow and log analytics, and a Linux-based dataplane, delivering features that scale across our vast edge network.

Collaborate with engineers and product managers to solve tough problems for customers worldwide, and join a culture that values curiosity, collaboration, and delivering measurable impact.