Cloudflare
Senior Software Engineer - Load Balancing
$185K–$266K
Hybrid +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company.
- Visa sponsorship
- Offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates the distributed microservices and systems behind Cloudflare’s Load Balancing product.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, maintain, and monitor Load Balancing systems throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with internal teams and review peers’ work to deliver scalable, reliable systems.
- Debug production issues, improve operational health, and mentor team members.
What they ask for
- Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems and modern Unix/Linux environments.
- Experience monitoring, alerting, and debugging high-volume production systems; experience with databases, monitoring/logging tools, and containerization/orchestration.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including empathy, teamwork, and ownership.
Pay
$194,000 - $266,000 USD base salary (San Francisco); $185,000 - $254,000 USD base salary (New York)
Tools
Go, Rust, C++, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker
AI focus
The posting describes an AI-native culture and encourages using AI as a partner to solve problems and ship faster; no specific AI engineering work is stated.
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