Edge Platform Engineer (Rust/Go) – Scale the Web

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare’s Front Line (FL) group maintains the main Cloudflare web server, handling over 150 million HTTP requests per second. You will work with engineers to boost availability, safety and reliability of the edge ecosystem, and help build the world’s best web server.

We value curiosity, AI-driven problem solving, and collaboration across product and engineering teams to ship secure, scalable solutions globally.

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 increase the availability, safety & reliability of the edge ecosystem.
• You will improve the platform, increasing reliability, availability, and security at the edge and help to build the best web server in the world.

Skills

Distributed systems

Performance engineering

Team collaboration

Algorithms & data structures

Concurrency control

Communication across teams

Tools

Rust

Go

Job description

Cloudflare’s Front Line (FL) group maintains the main Cloudflare web server, handling over 150 million HTTP requests per second. You will work with engineers to boost availability, safety and reliability of the edge ecosystem, and help build the world’s best web server.

We value curiosity, AI-driven problem solving, and collaboration across product and engineering teams to ship secure, scalable solutions globally.