Systems Engineer - Go & Distributed Systems

WebHosting; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a talented Systems Engineer for its Load Balancing team in the Austin area. You will work on Go-based microservices, leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC, Kafka, and Clickhouse at massive scale.

You’ll build reliable, fault-tolerant systems and collaborate across security, SRE, and product groups to ship impactful features. You’ll grow through mentoring, joining a team that values curiosity, ownership, and a strong engineering culture, with opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience at a technology company.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or similar systems 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, Clickhouse) and with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, teamwork and ownership.

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, tests, and monitoring deployments.
• Collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product teams to design scalable solutions.
• Review peer work to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Mentor team members and coordinate with support teams to ensure customer delight.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Unix/Linux

Monitoring & debugging

Interpersonal skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

Redis

gRPC

Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a talented Systems Engineer for its Load Balancing team in the Austin area. You will work on Go-based microservices, leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC, Kafka, and Clickhouse at massive scale.

You’ll build reliable, fault-tolerant systems and collaborate across security, SRE, and product groups to ship impactful features. You’ll grow through mentoring, joining a team that values curiosity, ownership, and a strong engineering culture, with opportunities