Systems Engineer: Rust & Distributed Networking

JobCubby; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan

RSUs

Job summary

Cloudflare seeks engineers to build and operate high-performance systems that terminate HTTP and TLS at Internet scale. You will migrate core infrastructure from NGINX to a next-gen Rust-based proxy and measure protocol performance on real-world traffic.

You will have opportunities to contribute to open source and industry standards while collaborating with leading engineers. This hybrid role offers meaningful technical challenges and impact on Internet infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Solid systems programming experience in Rust or C.
• Interest in building reliable, secure, and performant software.
• Ability to work on high‑performance networking infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate systems that terminate HTTP and TLS at Internet scale.
• Migrate core infrastructure from NGINX to a next-gen Rust-based proxy.
• Measure and improve protocol performance across real-world traffic.
• Contribute to open source and industry standards.

Skills

Rust

C

Systems programming

Security

Performance

Tools

NGINX

Open source tooling

Job description

Cloudflare seeks engineers to build and operate high-performance systems that terminate HTTP and TLS at Internet scale. You will migrate core infrastructure from NGINX to a next-gen Rust-based proxy and measure protocol performance on real-world traffic.

You will have opportunities to contribute to open source and industry standards while collaborating with leading engineers. This hybrid role offers meaningful technical challenges and impact on Internet infrastructure.