Senior Software Engineer (Austin, TX)

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

Hiring will be focused on those residing within the greater Austin, TX metro area. It will be a hybrid role, with the expectation of 2 days per week in the office.

Hiring Process & Cloudflare's Engineering Teams

Cloudflare is a fast growing company and engineering is an ever-evolving function with teams being formed and redefined often. To streamline our hiring for Distributed Systems Engineers at Cloudflare, we’ve created a Single Hiring Pipeline (SHP) local to our Austin, TX office. This enables candidates to be considered for multiple engineering teams through a single, standardized interview process. This approach allows us to assess your skills and knowledge and match you with the team that best aligns with your strengths and interests. As part of the hiring process you will have the opportunity to meet with and ultimately select one or more teams; here are a few examples of the teams that you could be part of.

Application Performance; Application Security; Zero Trust Services; Serverless, Bot Management; DDoS Protection; Network Services / Magic Products; Full Stack / Microservices; Security / Cryptography; Content Delivery; Email Security; API Security; Client / WARP applications; Machine Learning; Threat Intelligence

About the Role

Cloudflare’s Engineers build and operate the software that helps power 25+ million Internet properties and millions of businesses around the world. Across our engineering organizations, we have opportunities for high caliber, curious and empathetic people to take on big challenges and build some of the best skills in the industry. We’re looking for talented team members to help build high-growth products,  help scale our expanding network, build tools to improve availability, performance, uptime, and response times, and make systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.

Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the Internet better, safer, and more powerful every day. As a Distributed Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, you’ll work on the code that runs close to the end user, runs at a massive scale, and is deployed to 250+ cities around the world.

Examples of software systems at Cloudflare include:

• A TLS/HTTP proxy to make the connection from eyeball to edge as fast and secure as possible
• Filtering malicious traffic and handling good traffic according to customer configuration
• Content optimization that takes content served from customer sites and makes it more performant
• A platform that runs “serverless” Workers and provides a key value store
• A reverse-proxy system that caches customer website content according to customer configuration
• Optimization of connections from Cloudflare to our customers' origin servers to reduce their load and increase performance
• Our Authoritative DNS server and our public resolver 1.1.1.1.
• One of the biggest data pipelines in the world, operating at well over 25M events per second

We operate some of the fastest, and most widely distributed services on the Internet. Your work will focus on building robust, secure, and high performance distributed systems. We are a small engineering team operating at a massive scale, so what you do will have a huge impact.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience