Senior Systems Engineer — Tunnel & Edge Network

Cloudflare

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 231,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Cloudflare Tunnel team. You will architect and implement scalable, secure systems to connect machines to the Cloudflare network across our edge infrastructure.

You will shape the next generation features for Cloudflare Tunnel, Mesh and Zero Trust, while guiding a team of engineers in a fast-paced environment. You will work with Go, Rust, and TypeScript, plus SQL and NoSQL databases, Docker, and Kubernetes, contributing to capacity planning

Qualifications

5+ years of backend software development for distributed systems.
Strong programming in Go, Rust, C++, or similar.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and implementation of Cloudflare Tunnel and edge services.
Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including design, coding, tests, and monitoring.
Collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product management to design scalable solutions.
Review peers' work to ensure high quality, maintainable code.
Drive long-term technical roadmap and system-wide improvements on the platform.