Senior Systems Engineer, Browser Isolation

Cloudflare, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Medical Insurance

Dental & Vision Insurance

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled engineer to contribute to Browser Isolation, combining systems programming with scalable distributed services. You will work on a Chromium-based browser, Go, Rust, and TypeScript services, shaping low-latency, secure remote browsing at scale.

You will collaborate across teams to optimize latency, reliability, and security, while mentoring peers and participating in on-call duties to maintain production reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong production C++ proficiency and debugging in large codebases.
• Experience leading complex distributed-systems improvements.
• Strong Linux/UNIX and networking fundamentals.
• Experience designing distributed systems boundaries and recovery.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, multi-component initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, staged rollout, and measurable production outcomes.
• Design and implement changes in our Chromium-based C++ browser and the distributed services and systems components supporting remote browsing, working across Go, Rust, and TypeScript.
• Make and explain architectural trade-offs across latency, availability, resource efficiency, security boundaries, and operational complexity.
• Investigate difficult cross-layer failures and performance bottlenecks, distinguishing browser, host, network, and control-plane causes.
• Improve resilience, capacity management, observability, and release safety; define success metrics and validate results.
• Coordinate work with partner teams, surface dependencies and risks early, and guide delivery through ambiguity.
• Mentor engineers and raise the quality of code reviews, design reviews, testing, documentation, and operational practices.
• Participate in the team’s production on-call rotation after onboarding, lead technical incident investigations as needed, and drive durable corrective actions.

Skills

C++ proficiency

Rust experience

Go experience

TypeScript experience

Linux/UNIX networking

Distributed systems

Tools

Nomad

Kubernetes

WebRTC

Skia

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled engineer to contribute to Browser Isolation, combining systems programming with scalable distributed services. You will work on a Chromium-based browser, Go, Rust, and TypeScript services, shaping low-latency, secure remote browsing at scale.

You will collaborate across teams to optimize latency, reliability, and security, while mentoring peers and participating in on-call duties to maintain production reliability.