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Senior Network Engineer

Cloudflare· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, US), Hybrid (Atlanta, GA), Hybrid (Denver, CO), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$168k - $231kPosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Network Engineer role on Cloudflare's Edge Network & Backbone team, focused on operating a large global network, applying AI-enabled tooling to reduce toil, and mentoring engineers. North American based with global team collaboration; hybrid/onsite expectations in multiple US locations.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical operation, engineering, and architecture of Cloudflare's global network, including planning, installation, and day-to-day management of hardware and software across the edge and backbone.
  • Serve as a hands-on operational anchor for the team — diagnosing and resolving complex network faults, owning incident response end-to-end including on-call rotation, and contributing to post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement.
  • Build production AI agents for network operations. Design, ship, and own LLM-powered tools that integrate with our operational systems of record via tool calling. Ship them with evals, observability of agent decisions, cost tracking, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints where autonomous action carries blast radius.
  • Apply AI to accelerate troubleshooting. Use and extend our internal AI platform (Workers AI, AI Gateway) to speed up root cause analysis, pattern recognition across faults, and operational decision-making under pressure.
  • Architect network improvements that lower latency, reduce packet loss, and increase scale — optimising end user experience across Cloudflare's global infrastructure.
  • Mentor and develop junior engineers on the team, setting technical standards, conducting structured troubleshooting sessions, and building a culture of operational excellence and continuous learning.
  • Collaborate with internal teams on cross-functional network projects, contributing to design documentation, SOPs, and knowledge base articles that outlast any individual contributor.

Qualifications

  • Proven track record in large-scale network engineering and operations.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript and/or Go sufficient to build, debug, and maintain agent code, not just to glue scripts together.
  • Working knowledge of agent integration patterns: function/tool calling, MCP or equivalent, retrieval over operational corpora (runbooks, postmortems, change history), and prompt iteration with evals.
  • Experience reasoning about agent failure modes in production: hallucination guards, fallback paths, rollback, blast-radius control.
  • Deep expertise in BGP and anycast routing, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex routing issues in a production environment.
  • Strong understanding of MPLS and Segment Routing.
  • Proficiency across multiple network vendor operating systems (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, or similar).
  • Experience with network automation frameworks such as SaltStack, Ansible, or equivalent, and a strong instinct for solving operational problems through code.
  • Ability to prioritise effectively and lead calmly when faced with high-pressure scenarios.
  • An effective communicator who can adapt their style to any audience — whether guiding a junior engineer through a fault or presenting a network architecture decision to senior leadership.

Skills

Required:Network engineering and operationsPython, TypeScript, or GoAgent integration patterns (function/tool calling, MCP or equivalent)BGP and anycast routingMPLS and Segment RoutingNetwork vendor OS (Juniper, Cisco, Arista)Network automation (SaltStack, Ansible)
Nice to have:AI in networking

Benefits

  • Health & Welfare Benefits: Medical/Rx Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program, Global Travel Medical Insurance
  • Financial Benefits: Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Time Off: Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, Leave programs including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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