Cloudflare
Senior Software Engineer, Network On-Ramps
$66K–$210K
Hybrid +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States
Champaign, IL, United States - Experience
- No specific years stated; engineers of all experience levels are considered.
- Visa sponsorship
- No visa policy stated.
About the job
Build, deploy, and operate scalable network services on Cloudflare’s global edge network, developing features and improving performance for customer connectivity and network visibility.
What you'll do
- Develop and operate systems such as BGP services, traffic dataplanes, control planes, and network analytics.
- Improve product features, performance, and scalability across distributed network systems.
- Own solutions end to end and collaborate across engineering and product teams.
What they ask for
- Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems.
- Systems-level programming experience, especially in Go and Rust.
- Expertise in L3 and L4 networking protocols.
- Experience building on Linux kernel networking primitives or designing and integrating RESTful APIs and backend systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale distributed data pipelines.
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
Pay
USD 168,000 - 210,000 annual salary (base salary); EUR 66,000 - 83,000 annual salary (base salary)
Tools
Go, Rust, Linux kernel, netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, network namespaces
AI focus
The company promotes leveraging AI as a partner to solve problems and ship faster; no specific AI engineering work is described for this role.
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