Cloudflare
Senior Systems Engineer, Cloudflare Tunnel
$168K–$254K
Hybrid +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX, United States
Denver, Colorado, United States
Seattle, WA
Washington, DC, United States - Experience
- 8+ years in backend software development focused on secure, highly available distributed systems.
- 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
Leads the design, implementation, and scaling of Cloudflare Tunnel systems, including its open-source client and edge services, to securely connect machines to Cloudflare’s network.
What you'll do
- Architect and build Tunnel systems, participate across the software lifecycle, and maintain production health.
- Collaborate across teams to scale technical solutions and guide the product’s long-term technical roadmap.
- Mentor engineers, review code, and establish engineering standards.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of backend software development focused on secure, highly available distributed systems.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language.
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux environments, OSI Layers 3–7 networking protocols, and network programming.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and with monitoring/logging tools and containerization/orchestration technologies.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with microservices and APIs, including RESTful design.
- Basic understanding of software security and encryption principles.
Pay
$168,000 - $231,000 USD annual salary (base salary); $185,000 - $254,000 USD annual salary (base salary)
Tools
Go, Rust, Typescript, SQL, No-SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus
AI focus
The posting describes an AI-native culture and encourages using AI as a partner to solve problems and ship faster; it does not specify AI product or engineering duties for this role.
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