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Cloudflare operates one of the largest global networks to protect and accelerate Internet properties for millions of customers. The company seeks curious, empathetic Software Engineers across levels to build and operate high-performance, secure, and failure-resistant distributed systems deployed in 330+ cities worldwide. Candidates should enjoy debugging, building APIs, and optimizing systems at network and protocol levels.

Skills

  • Strong debugging skills and passion for root-cause analysis
  • Experience with source control (git) and continuous integration workflows
  • Ability to design and build APIs and backend services
  • Understanding of secure system design and operational security considerations
  • Comfort working in multiple programming languages; Go and Rust are strong pluses
  • Experience with distributed systems, performance optimization, and latency-sensitive code
  • Familiarity with databases (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse) and large data analysis
  • Unix systems knowledge and experience with monitoring/alerting tools

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate software running at the edge of Cloudflare’s global network
  • Develop and maintain distributed systems that are secure, performant, and resilient
  • Debug and diagnose complex production issues across networking, storage, and compute stacks
  • Design and implement APIs and integrations used by internal and external services
  • Optimize systems at the protocol and implementation level (e.g., TLS/HTTP, TCP/IP)
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for high-volume services
  • Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents and outages
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to scale services and improve reliability

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  • Or equivalent professional experience in software engineering

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with expectation of ~2 days per week in-office
  • Work on highly distributed, globally impactful systems
  • Inclusive, diverse culture with professional development opportunities
  • Competitive compensation and equity (typical for public tech company)
  • Participation in on-call rotations with team support and incident response processes
  • Opportunities to contribute to open-source and community-impact projects
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Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks, with nearly 10 percent of the Fortune 1,000 as paying customers and approximately 19 percent of the top 10,000 websites using a...

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