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Senior Software Engineer - Load Balancing

Cloudflare· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining Cloudflare’s Load Balancing product, working on microservices primarily in Go, and collaborating across security, network engineering, SRE, and product management to build scalable, reliable systems at Cloudflare’s scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain the software systems that comprise Cloudflare’s Load Balancing product.
  • Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems to writing code, automated tests, and monitoring production deployments.
  • Collaborate with internal teams, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.
  • Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
  • Mentor team members and work with support teams to ensure customer delight and bring out the best in everyone.
  • Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health.
  • Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Go, Rust, and Typescript, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language
  • Experience building and operating distributed systems
  • Experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments
  • Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
  • Experience with databases (we use PostgreSQL and Clickhouse)
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership
  • First and foremost curiosity and critical thinking

Skills

Required:GoDistributed systemsUnix/LinuxMonitoring/LoggingDatabasesDockerKubernetesCommunication
Nice to have:RustC++
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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