Systems Engineer, Browser Isolation

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Cloudflare Browser Isolation runs web content in remote browsers, helping protect users from threats while preserving a responsive browsing experience. Our team builds the Chromium-based browsing engine, remote rendering and streaming technology, and distributed services that manage browser sessions across Cloudflare’s global network. You will work at the intersection of systems programming, distributed systems, and security. Engineers contribute across the product, collaborating on browser changes, service orchestration, observability, and build infrastructure. At this level, you will be accountable for reliable delivery within a defined component or problem area. You will make sound implementation decisions, seek help when needed, and build broader system knowledge over time. You do not need to have led an organization-wide architecture effort to succeed in this role.

Requirements

Experience delivering and maintaining production software, with practical C++ proficiency and an understanding of memory ownership, resource lifetimes, and concurrency.
Linux/UNIX fundamentals, including processes, threads, networking, and tools for diagnosing system behavior.
Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design.
Experience developing or operating distributed systems, with an understanding of service-to-service communication, timeouts, retries, partial failure, and basic consistency trade-offs.
Ability to navigate an unfamiliar codebase, break a defined problem into deliverable steps, and test correctness and failure cases.
A systematic approach to debugging and performance analysis, using evidence to form and test hypotheses.
Clear communication, collaborative problem-solving, and a willingness to learn Rust, Go, TypeScript, and the rest of our stack.

Nice To Haves

Prior Browser Isolation or Cloudflare experience is not required.
Browser engines, Chromium, browser sandboxing, or security-sensitive systems.
Low-latency streaming, graphics, remote computing, or other real-time systems.
Container and workload orchestration, including Nomad or Kubernetes, and service discovery.
Experience using Rust for systems programming or distributed services.
Go or TypeScript; WebRTC, Skia, WebAssembly, or WebGL.
Production observability, capacity planning, incident response, or build and release infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Own well-scoped features and improvements from design and implementation through testing, rollout, and production follow-up, with support from experienced teammates.
Develop and maintain C++ code in our Chromium-based browser, and contribute across distributed services and systems components written in Go, Rust, and TypeScript.
Debug failures across browser processes, Linux hosts, and distributed services using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools.
Improve session reliability, startup time, interactive latency, and resource efficiency; validate improvements with measurements.
Write maintainable code, automated tests, and clear design notes; participate in constructive code and design reviews.
Collaborate with teammates and partner teams, communicate trade-offs and blockers, and incorporate feedback.
Participate in the team’s production on-call rotation after onboarding, and contribute to incident mitigation and follow-up improvements.
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

Benefits

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul.
Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project : In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released.
Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.
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