Senior Edge Systems Engineer (Linux & Networking)

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 168,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Retirement plan

Stock options

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in Austin to shape the Linux-based edge appliance runtime and distributed control plane. You will build a scalable, secure platform that connects customer sites to Cloudflare and supports hundreds to thousands of branch sites.

This hands-on role blends low-level systems work with distributed services and API design, guiding major initiatives with technical leadership and collaboration with product and security teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating complex production systems.
• Strong Linux systems and networking knowledge (TCP/IP, namespaces, routing, IPsec, etc.).
• Experience designing distributed control planes and remote configuration for large fleets.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the cloud control plane, Linux appliance runtime, telemetry pipeline, and deployment environments.
• Develop and harden the Linux-based dataplane and secure networking capabilities.
• Build distributed control-plane and state-management systems that tolerate intermittent connectivity and scale to thousands of devices.
• Improve hardware-backed identity, attestation, secure boot, and staged OTA upgrades with safe rollback.
• Make operability a product feature with telemetry, diagnostics, and remote operations.

Skills

8+ years exp

Rust/Go/TypeScript

Linux networking

Distributed control planes

Security mindset

Technical leadership

Product judgment

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Buildroot

Yocto

OSTree

RAUC

VMware

KVM

AWS

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in Austin to shape the Linux-based edge appliance runtime and distributed control plane. You will build a scalable, secure platform that connects customer sites to Cloudflare and supports hundreds to thousands of branch sites.

This hands-on role blends low-level systems work with distributed services and API design, guiding major initiatives with technical leadership and collaboration with product and security teams.