Senior Network Platforms Engineer — Scale & Impact

Cloudflare, Inc.; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 68,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Job summary

Cloudflare seeks a skilled engineer to build and extend network software that carries traffic across its global platform. You’ll work from host kernel through dataplane to interconnects, shaping scalable, reliable systems used by millions of customers.

You will design, implement, test and deploy features, collaborating with teams across the company and participating in on-call duties to keep services healthy. A proactive, AI‑driven approach is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Systems-level programming in Go, Python, Rust, C or C++.
• Strong understanding of BGP and internet routing.
• Experience with distributed systems and adopting AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend software systems that carry traffic on critical paths of Cloudflare's network.
• Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with engineers across the company and provide on-call rotation responsibilities.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

C

C++

BGP

eBPF

Distributed systems

AI tools

Communication

Job description

Cloudflare seeks a skilled engineer to build and extend network software that carries traffic across its global platform. You’ll work from host kernel through dataplane to interconnects, shaping scalable, reliable systems used by millions of customers.

You will design, implement, test and deploy features, collaborating with teams across the company and participating in on-call duties to keep services healthy. A proactive, AI‑driven approach is encouraged.