Senior Software Engineer, Network On-Ramps - Edge & BGP

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Network On-Ramps to design and scale distributed networking software across our edge infrastructure. You'll work on an anycast BGP implementation, flow and log analytics, and a Linux kernel-based dataplane.

You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with top engineers and product managers, and ship solutions that impact millions of customers, while focusing on performance, reliability, and clear communication across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, distributed systems.
• Systems-level programming in Go and Rust.
• Expertise in L3/L4 networking protocols.
• Experience with Linux kernel networking primitives (netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, namespaces).
• RESTful APIs and backend systems design.
• Large-scale distributed data pipelines, data structuring, querying, analysis.
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
• Attention to detail and problem solving for customers.
• Own solutions end-to-end and drive design and deployment.
• Collaborate across teams for sustainable solutions.
• Creative, open-minded, collaborative problem solver.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop and ship features across a wide range of networking systems.
• Build, deploy, and operate systems on one of the largest edge networks.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to solve big problems.
• Improve performance and scalability of Network Services products.
• Work across Go and Rust codebases, kernel interactions.
• Support cross-team initiatives and incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Rust

Networking protocols

Linux networking

REST APIs

Data pipelines

Debugging

Attention to detail

End-to-end ownership

Job description

Cloudflare in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Network On-Ramps to design and scale distributed networking software across our edge infrastructure. You'll work on an anycast BGP implementation, flow and log analytics, and a Linux kernel-based dataplane.

You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with top engineers and product managers, and ship solutions that impact millions of customers, while focusing on performance, reliability, and clear communication across teams.