Software Engineer - Network Platforms

Cloudflare•Austin, TX

13h•Onsite

About The Position

The Network Platforms team contributes to Traffic Management functions at Cloudflare. One of the multiple teams responsible for the systems that optimize the flow of traffic into, through, and from Cloudflare's global network. You would be working on the latest Linux network technologies and low level details of the network protocols. The code written would be running on thousands of servers and will be directly impacting each of the packets crossing the network infrastructure, that directly maps to numerous products and millions of customers. These systems are key to Cloudflare's mission to make the internet faster, safer, and more reliable. Our team at Cloudflare operates under a "Run What You Build" model. This means we are responsible for the health of our systems and actively participate in our team's on-call rotation as part of our operational duties.

Requirements

Systems-level programming experience in Go, Python, Rust, C, or C++
A solid grasp of BGP and internet routing.
Relish opportunities to dive into new technologies, and a demonstrated ability to do so
Experience in implementing, deploying, and debugging mission-critical distributed systems
Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity vendor switching SDKs
Familiarity with SR-MPLS and sFlow, BGP-LS & PCE protocols
Experience writing packet-processing software (eg, eBPF at TC or XDP, DPDK)
Experience participating in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

Build and extend various systems that carry traffic end-to-end on the egress path of Cloudflare network.
Starting at the host server linux kernel, with integration towards the network hardware dataplane until the physical Interconnect to an adjacent network.
Collaborate with engineers across the company, from operations teams to the teams building customer-facing products.