Senior Network Platforms Engineer — AI-Driven, High Scale

CloudFlare; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Network Platforms to build and extend software that carries traffic on critical paths of its global network.

You will design, implement, test, and deploy systems while collaborating with operations and product teams to meet evolving business needs. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

Qualifications

• Systems-level programming experience in Go, Python, Rust, C, or C++.
• Solid grasp of BGP and internet routing.
• Experience implementing, deploying, and debugging mission-critical distributed systems.
• Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into engineering workflow.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Growth-oriented mindset and curiosity to tackle hard problems.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend software systems carrying traffic on critical paths of Cloudflare's network.
• Design, document, code, test, deploy and monitor production software.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to meet business needs.
• Participate in on-call rotation and assume ownership of deployed services.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

C/C++

BGP

Distributed systems

AI tools adoption

Communication

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Network Platforms to build and extend software that carries traffic on critical paths of its global network.

You will design, implement, test, and deploy systems while collaborating with operations and product teams to meet evolving business needs. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.