Senior Load Balancing Engineer — Scale Global Web Traffic

WebHosting; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Load Balancing team. You will work on Go-based microservices, collaborating across security, network engineering, SRE, and product management to design and operate scalable load balancing solutions.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience building distributed systems, strong coding skills in Go, Rust, or C++, and hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

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 and debugging high volume production systems.
• Experience with databases (we use PostgreSQL and Clickhouse).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership.

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, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.
• Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Mentor team members and work with support teams to ensure customer delight and bring out the best in everyone.
• Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health.
• Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Go, Rust, and Typescript, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Unix/Linux

Monitoring

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Redis

gRPC

Kafka

Clickhouse

Job description

Cloudflare in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Load Balancing team. You will work on Go-based microservices, collaborating across security, network engineering, SRE, and product management to design and operate scalable load balancing solutions.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience building distributed systems, strong coding skills in Go, Rust, or C++, and hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.