Cloudflare
Senior Software Engineer - Egress (Go/Rust)
$66K–$91K
Hybrid +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Dec 22, 2025
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including end-to-end architectural ownership of complex, distributed, production-critical systems; demonstrated technical leadership driving RFCs and design reviews.
- Visa sponsorship
- Offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Build and operate Cloudflare’s egress connectivity platform, enabling products to connect from Cloudflare’s network to destinations worldwide.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, test, and deploy platform capabilities in collaboration with engineering and network teams.
- Take part in on-call operations and investigate escalated customer issues.
- Use AI-powered tools to analyze code and production systems and accelerate problem-solving.
What they ask for
- Programming experience in Go or Rust, with interest in improving skills in both.
- Strong Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking knowledge; knowledge of HTTP, TLS, and CDN networks.
- Experience implementing secure, highly available distributed systems and debugging complex systems.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; willingness to integrate AI tools into engineering workflow.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of TCP/IP and Internet routing.
- Professional systems-level Rust experience; experience building tools and APIs, or monitoring and debugging large-scale systems.
Pay
€66,000 - €91,000 EUR annual salary (base salary) for Portugal-based hires.
Tools
Rust, Go, Linux networking, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Kubernetes
AI focus
Use AI-powered tools and systems in daily engineering work to analyze and extend codebases, inspect production systems and datasets, and accelerate problem-solving.
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