Senior Network Reliability Engineer - Edge & Performance

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Job summary

Cloudflare in Austin is seeking a growth-oriented engineer to join the Argo team. You will help enable more reliable network connectivity across Cloudflare’s products, contributing to edge and platform software with Go, Rust, Linux networking, and database tooling.

Collaboration with multiple engineering groups and on-call responsibilities are core parts of the role. You’ll work with a stack including Rust, Go, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Kubernetes, and AI-powered tooling to accelerate

Qualifications

• Systems-level programming in Go, Rust, C, or C++ with willingness to learn Rust.
• Understanding of networking layers 3–4 and related protocols.
• Familiarity with HTTP, TLS, and CDN networks.
• Experience building distributed, highly available systems and on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Enable reliable network connectivity for Cloudflare products.
• Contribute to Argo-powered services like CDN, Spectrum, and Workers.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Network Engineering, and SRE to implement platform capabilities.
• Participate in the full software lifecycle: design, code, tests, and deployments.
• Work with Rust, Go, Linux networking, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Kubernetes; apply AI tools.

Skills

Systems-level programming

Go

Rust

C/C++

Networking protocols (OSI 3-4)

HTTP/TLS/CDN

Distributed systems

On-call rotation

Collaboration

AI tool integration

Tools

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

Grafana

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

Cloudflare in Austin is seeking a growth-oriented engineer to join the Argo team. You will help enable more reliable network connectivity across Cloudflare’s products, contributing to edge and platform software with Go, Rust, Linux networking, and database tooling.

Collaboration with multiple engineering groups and on-call responsibilities are core parts of the role. You’ll work with a stack including Rust, Go, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Kubernetes, and AI-powered tooling to accelerate