Senior Load Balancing Engineer: Go & Distributed Systems

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Load Balancing to join our team in the United States. You will design and maintain the Load Balancing software, primarily in Go, with exposure to Rust and C++, and work across services at scale.

You will collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product management to deliver reliable, fault-tolerant systems deployed across a large global network.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems.
• Experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems.
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL and Clickhouse).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the software systems that comprise Cloudflare's Load Balancing product.
• Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems to writing code, automated tests, and monitoring production deployments.
• Collaborate with internal teams to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.
• Review work from peers to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Mentor team members and work with support teams to ensure customer delight.
• Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health.
• Work with a wide range of technologies and languages (Go, Rust, TS) and databases (SQL/No-SQL), Docker, Kubernetes.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Unix/Linux

Monitoring & debugging

Prometheus Grafana

Docker Kubernetes

Tools

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Load Balancing to join our team in the United States. You will design and maintain the Load Balancing software, primarily in Go, with exposure to Rust and C++, and work across services at scale.

You will collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product management to deliver reliable, fault-tolerant systems deployed across a large global network.