Senior Software Engineer – Network Connectivity

Cloudflare

Senior Software Engineer contributing to Cloudflare's network-as-a-service product. Working with various engineering teams to improve capabilities while ensuring optimal performance.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Make daily progress on assigned engineering tasks, such as designing systems, writing specs, writing and pushing code via git, writing release plans for complex changes, rolling out production releases and working with other teams to coordinate system actions
Participate in daily and ad-hoc team meetings to share progress and collaborate
Participate in the team’s on-call schedule to ensure uptime of our production systems
Investigating customer issues that are escalated to the Egress team for triage and resolution
Responding to questions from other teams in the Egress team’s internal, public chat room
Using AI-powered tools and systems as part of your daily workflow to analyze and extend codebases, introspect production systems and datasets, and accelerate problem-solving

Requirements

What you’ll need

Programming experience in Go or Rust and a desire to improve your skills in both.
A solid grasp of networking protocols in Layers 3 and 4 of the OSI Model.
Knowledge of HTTP, TLS, and CDN networks.
Experience in implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems.
Strong ability to debug issues in complex systems.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Experience/interest in HTTP networking and VPN technologies.
Experience/interest in network performance monitoring and tuning.
Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your engineering workflow.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoRustnetworking protocolsOSI ModelHTTPTLSCDN networksdistributed systemsdebuggingnetwork performance monitoring

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solving