Browser Isolation Systems Engineer – Low-Latency & Scale

Cloudflare; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare Austin team seeks an engineer to own well-scoped features from design to production, delivering reliable software within a distributed system. You will focus on performance, latency, and resource efficiency while collaborating with cross-functional teammates.

You will work with Rust, Go, and TypeScript across a stack including Cloudflare Workers, Nomad, and Consul, and you will participate in on-call rotations after onboarding while continuously improving the architecture and code

Qualifications

• Experience delivering and maintaining production software, with practical C++ proficiency and 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.

Responsibilities

• Own well-scoped features and improvements from design and implementation through testing, rollout, and production follow-up, with support from experienced teammates.
• 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.

Skills

Production software

C++ proficiency

Linux fundamentals

Data structures

Distributed systems

Code navigation

Debugging

Communication

Learn Rust/Go/TypeScript

Tools

Rust

Go

TypeScript

Cloudflare Workers

Nomad

Consul

WebRTC

Skia

Job description

Cloudflare Austin team seeks an engineer to own well-scoped features from design to production, delivering reliable software within a distributed system. You will focus on performance, latency, and resource efficiency while collaborating with cross-functional teammates.

You will work with Rust, Go, and TypeScript across a stack including Cloudflare Workers, Nomad, and Consul, and you will participate in on-call rotations after onboarding while continuously improving the architecture and code