Systems Engineer, Load Balancing (Go/Rust) – Austin

Cloudflare, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a talented Systems Engineer to join the Load Balancing team in Austin, TX. You will work on Go-based microservices, with Go, Rust, and TypeScript, and collaborate across security, network, SRE, and product teams to deliver scalable solutions at scale.

The role emphasizes designing reliable software, participating in the full SDLC, and mentoring teammates while contributing to high-availability deployments across a large global network.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience at a technology company.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or similar systems languages.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the Load Balancing product software.
• Participate in all stages of the SDLC from design to deployment and testing.
• Collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product teams to design scalable solutions.
• Review peers’ code to ensure quality and maintainability.
• Mentor teammates and support teams to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Debug complex system issues and improve operational health.
• Work with Go, Rust, Typescript and databases; Docker and Kubernetes.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Unix/Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

Prometheus

Grafana

Typescript

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a talented Systems Engineer to join the Load Balancing team in Austin, TX. You will work on Go-based microservices, with Go, Rust, and TypeScript, and collaborate across security, network, SRE, and product teams to deliver scalable solutions at scale.

The role emphasizes designing reliable software, participating in the full SDLC, and mentoring teammates while contributing to high-availability deployments across a large global network.