Systems Engineer — Browser Isolation & Distributed Systems

Cloudflare, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health benefits

On-site amenities

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking an engineer to help build and maintain production software across a Chromium-based browser and distributed services. You will work on systems programming, security, and performance, collaborating with teams across the company.

The role emphasizes C++ development, exposure to Go, Rust, and TypeScript, debugging at scale, and contributing to on-call incident mitigation after onboarding.

Qualifications

• Production software delivery experience with C++ proficiency.
• Strong knowledge of memory ownership, lifetimes, and concurrency.
• Linux/UNIX fundamentals and system diagnostics.
• Experience with distributed systems and service-to-service communication.
• Ability to learn Rust, Go, and TypeScript in a large codebase.

Responsibilities

• Own features from design to production with team support.
• Develop and maintain C++ in the Chromium-based browser and contribute across Go, Rust, and TypeScript.
• Debug failures across browser processes, Linux hosts, and services using logs and profiling.
• Improve startup time, latency, and resource efficiency with measurable validation.
• Write tests and design notes; participate in reviews.
• Collaborate with teams and assist on-call rotation.

Skills

C++ proficiency

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Linux/UNIX

Memory management

Concurrency

Observability

Debugging

Communication

Tools

Chromium-based engine

WebRTC

Skia

Nomad

Kubernetes

WebAssembly

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking an engineer to help build and maintain production software across a Chromium-based browser and distributed services. You will work on systems programming, security, and performance, collaborating with teams across the company.

The role emphasizes C++ development, exposure to Go, Rust, and TypeScript, debugging at scale, and contributing to on-call incident mitigation after onboarding.