Senior Systems Engineer: Tunnel & Edge Infrastructure Architect

Cloudflare; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 168,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Welfare Benefits

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Commuter Spending Accounts

Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

On-demand mental health support

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Cloudflare Tunnel team to drive the technical vision and architecture for future scale, ensuring secure connections to the Cloudflare network. You will influence design across edge services and microservice clusters in a high-performance environment.

You will lead cross-functional collaborations with security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, mentor engineers, and help shape the long-term roadmap while working with Go,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend distributed systems experience.
• Strong Go, Rust, or C++ programming skills.
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficient in network programming and OSI model concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and implementation of Cloudflare Tunnel-related systems.
• Participate in full software lifecycle from design to deployment.
• Collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product teams.
• Mentor teammates and establish engineering standards.
• Debug and improve operational health of distributed systems.
• Define long-term technical roadmap and scalability plans.
• Work with Go, Rust, TypeScript, SQL/No-SQL databases, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed Systems

Networking

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Grafana

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Cloudflare Tunnel team to drive the technical vision and architecture for future scale, ensuring secure connections to the Cloudflare network. You will influence design across edge services and microservice clusters in a high-performance environment.

You will lead cross-functional collaborations with security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, mentor engineers, and help shape the long-term roadmap while working with Go,