Network Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 04-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Us

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds 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!

Available Locations: Austin Lisbon London

Hiring will be focused on those residing within the greater Austin TX London UK & Lisbon Portugal metro areas. It will be a hybrid role with the expectation of 2 days per week in the office.

Were hiring Software Engineers at all levels. This is a single pipeline position.

About the team

The Magic Cloud Networking team builds an orchestration framework that empowers customers to take public cloud resources (e.g. AWS / Azure / GCP) and securely connect them to Cloudflares global data-center footprint. Working with public cloud networking resources provides unique challengeseach cloud models networking very differently customers can modify resources out-of-band of our orchestration system (shadow IT operations) resources can fail in opaque and varied ways outside of our control etc.. To solve these issues our orchestration platform must be resilient and scalable while also affording flexibility to the unique constraints of each cloud. Powering this orchestration framework are a set of Go and Rust-based microservices running in our core data-centers leveraging Cloudflares infrastructure excellence.

We are a team of engineers who obsess over building reliable services which leverage Cloudflares unique architecture and global network footprint.

You can read more about what we work on here:

the role
As a software engineer on the Magic Cloud Networking team you will contribute to features that shape Cloudflare Ones use of multi-cloud networking. You will build solutions that improve performance scalability manageability and security of customer cloud footprints as well as connect them to our global network. This work requires close collaboration with other teams while leveraging frameworks and libraries that power many Cloudflare products. Our technology stack includes Go Rust OpenTofu Public Clouds (e.g. AWS / Azure / GCP) Kubernetes Docker and Prometheus. Were looking for determined curious empathetic engineers to join our team!
Desirable skills knowledge and experience
- Programming experience in Go or Rust
- Familiarity with Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking; i.e VPCs transit gateways BGP and GRE tunnels
- Familiarity with network engineering and protocols used in data center switching and routing as well as Internet routing - BGP BFP OSPF MPLS etc
- Experience building network orchestration platforms
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and backend systems
- Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems
- Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design development and deployment process
- Able to work across teams and create common sustainable solutions
- Creative open-minded collaborative problem solver
- Focus on clarity in written and verbal communication

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their or any other persons perceived or actual race color religion sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation national origin ancestry citizenship age physical or mental disability medical condition family care status or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

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