Systems Engineer - Browser Isolation & Distributed Systems

LinuxCareers; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Systems Engineer to work on a Chromium-based remote browsing platform that protects users while maintaining responsive performance. You will develop in C++ within the Chromium-based browser and contribute to distributed services written in Go, Rust, and TypeScript.

You will debug across browser processes, Linux hosts, and distributed systems, aiming to reduce startup time and latency while improving resource efficiency. Production on-call rotation awaits after onboarding.

Qualifications

• Practical C++ proficiency with understanding of memory ownership, resource lifetimes, and concurrency.
• Linux/UNIX fundamentals including processes, threads, networking, and diagnostic tools.
• Experience delivering and maintaining production software.
• Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases, break problems into deliverable steps, and test correctness and failure cases.

Responsibilities

• Own well-scoped features and improvements from design through implementation, testing, rollout, and production monitoring with team support
• Develop and maintain C++ code in the Chromium-based browser and contribute to distributed services and systems components written in Go, Rust, and TypeScript
• Debug failures across browser processes, Linux hosts, and distributed services using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools
• Improve session reliability, startup time, interactive latency, and resource efficiency through measurements and validation
• Participate in the team's production on-call rotation after onboarding to address incidents and contribute to follow-up improvements

Skills

C++

Memory management

Concurrency

Linux/UNIX

Production software

Tools

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Chromium

Kubernetes

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Systems Engineer to work on a Chromium-based remote browsing platform that protects users while maintaining responsive performance. You will develop in C++ within the Chromium-based browser and contribute to distributed services written in Go, Rust, and TypeScript.

You will debug across browser processes, Linux hosts, and distributed systems, aiming to reduce startup time and latency while improving resource efficiency. Production on-call rotation awaits after onboarding.