Senior Software Engineer - Egress (Go/Rust)
Cloudflare· Engineering
Hybrid (Austin, US), Hybrid (Lisbon, Portugal), Hybrid (London, UK)€66k - €91kfull-timePosted 10mo ago
About the role
Senior software engineer on the Egress team at Cloudflare, focusing on network software infrastructure for egress connectivity across products (e.g., WARP, iCloud Private Relay). Hybrid role with multiple locations.
Responsibilities
- Make daily progress on assigned engineering tasks, such as designing systems, writing specs, writing and pushing code via git, writing release plans for complex changes, rolling out production releases and working with other teams to coordinate system actions
- Participate in daily and ad-hoc team meetings to share progress and collaborate
- Participate in the team’s on-call schedule to ensure uptime of our production systems
- Investigating customer issues that are escalated to the Egress team for triage and resolution
- Responding to questions from other teams in the Egress team’s internal, public chat room
- Using AI-powered tools and systems as part of your daily workflow to analyze and extend codebases, introspect production systems and datasets, and accelerate problem-solving
Qualifications
- Programming experience in Go or Rust and a desire to improve your skills in both
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including a track record of owning the architecture of complex, distributed, production-critical systems end to end
- Demonstrated technical leadership beyond your own code: driving RFCs and design reviews that other senior engineers and teams rely on
- A solid grasp of networking protocols in Layers 3 and 4 of the OSI Model
- Knowledge of HTTP, TLS, and CDN networks
- Experience in implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems
- Strong ability to debug issues in complex systems
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience/interest in HTTP networking and VPN technologies
- Experience/interest in network performance monitoring and tuning
- Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your engineering workflow
Skills
Required:GoRustLinux networkingHTTP/TLSDistributed systems
Benefits
- Cloudflare equity plan
- On-call rotation inclusion
- Competitive compensation aligned with local markets
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge networking infrastructure
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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