Senior Systems Engineer, Cloudflare Tunnel

Cloudflare•Austin, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Systems Engineer on the Cloudflare Tunnel team, you will drive the technical vision and architect for future scale, ensuring our product securely connects any machine to the Cloudflare network. You will be responsible for the strategic design of systems across our high-performance global edge network and microservice clusters, providing cross-functional influence to ensure long-term stability and performance. In this leadership role, you will guide capacity planning and the development of next-generation features for Cloudflare Tunnel, Mesh and Zero Trust Network. You will join a team of bright, hard-working, and supportive engineers who are passionate about their craft, and you will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced but sane work environment.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in backend software development with a focus on building secure and highly available distributed systems.
Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language.
Knowledge of modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments.
Grasp of networking protocols in Layers 3-7 of the OSI Model and experience with network programming.
Familiarity with microservices and APIs, including RESTful design.
Basic understanding of software security and encryption principles.
Ability to debug and troubleshoot issues in complex distributed systems.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and implementation of complex software systems that comprise Cloudflare Tunnel, including the cross-platform, open-source client and high-performance edge services.
Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems to writing code, automated tests, and monitoring production deployments.
Strategically influence and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design and scale technical solutions.
Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
Foster a culture of technical excellence through mentorship, proactive code reviews, and establishing engineering standards across the team to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health.
Drive the long-term technical roadmap and identify opportunities for system-wide improvements, ensuring our architecture remains resilient as we scale.
Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Go, Rust, and Typescript, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.