Cloudflare
Staff Software Engineer - Integrated Network Strategy
Hybrid +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 10+ years; hyperscale or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- An offer 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
Leads the design and long-term evolution of Cloudflare’s global network infrastructure, including architecture, capacity planning, hardware strategy, and operational systems.
What you'll do
- Design network architecture and standards, and lead architectural reviews and evolution initiatives.
- Develop capacity-planning methods, forecasts, tools, and automated systems.
- Plan network hardware evolution and multi-year roadmaps; coordinate technical evaluations and transitions across engineering, procurement, finance, and operations.
What they ask for
- 10+ years designing, operating, or planning large-scale network infrastructure at hyperscale (or equivalent).
- Deep hands-on expertise with modern routing protocols, including BGP, ISIS, and RSVP-TE.
- Strong experience with software-defined networking, overlay networks, and programmable forwarding.
- Track record of building greenfield network architectures and automating complex network operations at scale.
Nice to have
- Experience at a hyperscaler or large infrastructure platform.
- Experience with network telemetry, Netflow data analysis, and observability at scale.
Tools
BGP, ISIS, RSVP-TE, QoS, Netflow, IPv6, SDN
AI focus
The posting describes an AI-native culture that uses AI as a partner and leverages it to ship faster, but does not specify AI work for this role.
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