Senior Systems Engineer, Load Balancing (Go/Rust)

Cloudflare; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare engineers build and operate the software powering millions of Internet properties worldwide. The role focuses on the Load Balancing product, with ambitions to design scalable systems, code in Go, Rust, and C++, and improve operational health at Cloudflare’s scale.

You will work across security, network engineering, SRE, and product management to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions and contribute to a fast-paced, collaborative engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems.
• Experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems.
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL and Clickhouse).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the software systems that comprise Cloudflare's Load Balancing product.
• Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems to writing code, automated tests, and monitoring production deployments.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.
• Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Mentor team members and work with support teams to ensure customer delight and bring out the best in everyone.
• Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health.
• Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Go, Rust, and Typescript, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Unix/Linux

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cloudflare engineers build and operate the software powering millions of Internet properties worldwide. The role focuses on the Load Balancing product, with ambitions to design scalable systems, code in Go, Rust, and C++, and improve operational health at Cloudflare’s scale.

You will work across security, network engineering, SRE, and product management to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions and contribute to a fast-paced, collaborative engineering culture.