Requirements

• 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 top of Linux kernel networking primitives – netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, network namespaces, etc
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and backend systems
• Experience with large-scale distributed data pipelines, from data structuring to efficient querying to data analysis
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• 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 level common, sustainable solutions
• Creative, open-minded, collaborative problem solver
• Focus on clarity in written and verbal communication

Nice to Haves

• N/A

What You'll Be Doing

• An anycast BGP implementation that sustains sessions that are moved across servers and regions
• Flow and log collection, correlation, and analytics systems to provide customers with unparalleled visibility into their own networks
• A Linux kernel-based networking dataplane which ingests and forwards traffic from some of the largest networks in the world
• Control plane systems which allow customers to simply express complex network configurations

Perks and Benefits

• Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
• For Champaign IL based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $210,000.
• For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €66,000 - 83,000.
• This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
• Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits including health & welfare benefits, financial benefits, and time off.