Senior Network Software Engineer – Edge & BGP

JobCubby; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is hiring engineers of all experience levels to work on large-scale distributed networking and edge services. You will build features across BGP, flow analytics, and kernel-networking datapaths and deploy on one of the world’s largest edge networks.

We value curiosity, collaboration, and the ability to translate complex problems into robust software, with focus on performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems.
• Systems-level programming experience, especially in Go and Rust.
• Expertise in L3 and L4 networking protocols.
• Experience building on top of Linux kernel networking primitives – netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, network namespaces, etc
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and backend systems.
• Experience with large-scale distributed data pipelines, from data structuring to efficient querying to data analysis.
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems.
• Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and operate our team’s systems on top of one of the world’s largest edge networks.
• Work across a wide range of technologies to deliver new features and improve performance.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to solve meaningful networking problems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Rust

Linux networking

RESTful APIs

Data pipelines

Debugging

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Go

Rust

Linux

nftables

eBPF

Job description

Cloudflare is hiring engineers of all experience levels to work on large-scale distributed networking and edge services. You will build features across BGP, flow analytics, and kernel-networking datapaths and deploy on one of the world’s largest edge networks.

We value curiosity, collaboration, and the ability to translate complex problems into robust software, with focus on performance and reliability.